https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Several people were injured on Wednesday morning after a regional train collided with a truck near Rendsburg in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein. https://www.thelocal.de/20190508/at-least-20-injured-after-train-and-truck-collide-near-hamburg Wed, 08 May 2019 10:15:20 +0200 at-least-20-injured-after-train-and-truck-collide-near-hamburg There was an emergency situation on the Autobahn 45 at Dillenburg, Hesse yesterday evening when a 23-tonne granite block fell from a low-bed truck onto the road. https://www.thelocal.de/20181101/huge-granite-block-falls-onto-motorway-in-hesse Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:28:53 +0100 huge-granite-block-falls-onto-motorway-in-hesse Eleven people were slightly injured Monday when a commuter train crashed into a trailer truck in southern Germany, firefighters said. https://www.thelocal.de/20181015/11-injured-near-lake-constance-as-train-hits-trailer-truck Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:18:22 +0200 11-injured-near-lake-constance-as-train-hits-trailer-truck A leaky truck was discovered to have spilled 900 litres of nitric acid onto the streets of a south Berlin neighbourhood on Wednesday, leaving fifteen people injured. https://www.thelocal.de/20170830/truck-spills-nitric-acid-onto-the-streets-of-south-berlin Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:43:29 +0200 truck-spills-nitric-acid-onto-the-streets-of-south-berlin When his cargo of diesel and petrol caught fire in a built up area of Bavaria on Monday, a truck driver was unable to put out the flames. So he risked his life to make sure others weren’t put in danger. https://www.thelocal.de/20170718/hero-truck-driver-risks-life-to-guide-burning-tanker-away-from-town Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:20:40 +0200 hero-truck-driver-risks-life-to-guide-burning-tanker-away-from-town A truck crash on the motorway outside Hanover on Wednesday afternoon led to thousands of cans of beer being spilled across the motorway - and the road being temporarily shut down. https://www.thelocal.de/20151104/spilled-beer-shuts-down-hanover-motorway Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:59:59 +0100 spilled-beer-shuts-down-hanover-motorway German automaker Daimler said it trialled a self-driving truck under real traffic conditions for the first time on Friday, on a motorway in southern Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20151003/daimler-trials-self-driving-truck-in-germany Sat, 03 Oct 2015 17:36:54 +0200 daimler-trials-self-driving-truck-in-germany Four defendants were to appear in court in Hungary on Saturday over Austria's migrant truck tragedy, as a "horrified and heartbroken" UN chief called for international action to end Europe's refugee crisis. https://www.thelocal.de/20150829/austria-migrant-tragedy-suspects-to-appear-in-court Sat, 29 Aug 2015 13:51:04 +0200 austria-migrant-tragedy-suspects-to-appear-in-court A Bavarian court on Tuesday jailed a 60-year-old former driver for ten years and six months after a spectacular arson spree that left a trail of destruction - and DNA traces - behind him until his arrest. https://www.thelocal.de/20141209/arsonist-trucker-jailed-for-35m-revenge-rampage Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:43:00 +0100 arsonist-trucker-jailed-for-35m-revenge-rampage