A controlled detonation of a 500-kg bomb from the Second World War left a 20-metre-wide crater in the middle of one of Germany's busiest traffic corridors on Tuesday night.
Forewarned is forearmed in a country with no speed limits on motorways where errant drivers often race in the wrong direction. The government says it will finally fit an electronic alert system on danger stretches of the Autobahn.
Drivers who rarely use Germany’s motorways will be able to pay a reduced rate under plans being drawn up by the transport ministry to charge motorists.
Driving on the German Autobahn can be one of the greatest motoring experiences in the world. The Local’s List this week looks at the top five dos and don’ts on the country’s 13,000 kilometres of motorway.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich is demanding that security services have access to data from autobahn toll collection services according to a media report on Wednesday.
Two-thirds of Germans support a charge on foreign drivers, despite it contradicting European Union law. The toll will be discussed in coalition negotiations with one report suggesting there is a way around EU rules.
Germany’s transport minister threw his support behind a plan on Tuesday to charge foreigners to use the country's motorways. It would, he said, help fill a €7.2 billion blackhole in the transport budget.
Some of the best ways to escape speeding fines in Germany include driving a foreign car, living abroad and having an odd address. Figures from Hamburg show foreigners often get away scot free.
A mystery gunman who terrorised drivers on German motorways for five years by firing from his vehicles at hundreds of people driving the other way has been arrested, it was reported on Monday. One woman was hit in the throat.
Motorists in Germany are throwing away millions of euros - by not cashing in the 'refund' ticket handed out by a public toilet companies operating at autobahn stops.
Insurance companies have long known that women are safer drivers than men - but now it seems attitudes have caught up with reality, and Germans are more likely to trust a woman in a car than a man.
A new motorway theft phenomena – opening a truck's back doors and stealing its contents while driving at high speeds – has hit Germany and left police baffled. One vehicle drove for hours on the autobahn with open doors after the heist.
Drivers in the southwestern city of Stuttgart have to contend the worst traffic congestion in Germany and face delays comparable to the clogged streets of Los Angeles, according to a new study.
Snow and ice in Bavaria caused a motorway huge pile-up overnight, leaving 10 people injured and traffic jams for those travelling towards Munich on the A94.
German police this week tried to flag down a large truck swerving between lanes on the autobahn only to find the driver was unconscious. Miraculously, the vehicle sped ten kilometres before stopping without hurting anyone.
A helicopter crashed on the A6 motorway in southwestern Germany Thursday, killing the pilot, after the aircraft got caught in high-voltage power lines and exploded, police said.
A truck driver who on New Year's Day drove the wrong way onto a motorway in northern Germany, killing two people as he tried to turn around, fled from the accident scene, police said on Wednesday.
Three people died and 16 were injured in a 12-car pileup on the B30 route near the southern German city of Ulm in the early hours of Tuesday. Fog could be to blame.
German Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer on Tuesday unveiled a new system of traffic violation points which could mean 10 percent more drivers lose their licences in the land of the high-speed autobahn each year.
A bus carrying about 50 schoolchildren home from a class trip caught on fire early Saturday on the A7 motorway near Soltau in Lower Saxony. No-one was seriously injured, but several teenagers were treated for cuts and smoke inhalation.
Huge traffic delays caused this week by a motorway pile-up in the Rhineland could continue for 18 months, after engineers said a fire damaged an autobahn bridge on the A57 so badly it will have to be torn down and rebuilt.
