70 Vehicles Slam Together in Austria

About 70 vehicles slammed into each other Tuesday in heavy snowfall on an autobahn in northwestern Austria, killing one person and injuring at least 37 others, police said.

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Dozens of people were injured in a pileup involving 259 cars on the A2 motorway in the state of Lower Saxony late on Sunday, police reported. Ten of the injured are in critical condition.

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Insurers have been stung for a 110,000 GBP motorway prang - after a lorry driver was attacked by a wasp. Trucker Heinz Langer, 23, overturned his HGV after he was stung on the thigh by the insect and suffered a severe allergic reaction.

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Eighteen tonnes of eggs went over-easy on the Autobahn in northern Brandenburg after a truck overturned early Monday morning.

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A female teacher and a male school director prevented a potentially-disastrous traffic accident this morning (Fri) by stopping a school bus after the driver became incapacitated.

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Officers managed to save some 4,200 trout from certain death on the autobahn after an emergency call from a truck driver, Bavarian police reported on Wednesday.

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A frantic call to police reporting a car with a pair of masked bandits caused a scare on the A3 motorway, but they turned out to be a couple who had caught a cold, Erlangen police reported on Monday.

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Dinosaur rock fans aged 45 and over will remember the pulsating, eerily monotonous yet pioneering electronic sound of the smash hit "Autobahn" that launched the German band Kraftwerk on to the popular music scene back in the 1970s.

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When horrified motorists came across a huge trail of blood on a motorway in Switzerland, there could be only one logical explanation: a big monster had been shot dead and dragged away.

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A skateboarding extreme sportsman alarmed police by barreling down a stretch of the German autobahn at 100 kilometers per hour. The stunt made him a YouTube star and also the target of prosecutors. Now, though, it looks like he might escape without punishment.

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German police are trying to track down a skateboarder who sped down a steep stretch of motorway at 62mph.

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German police said on Wednesday they were looking for a skateboarder who was filmed travelling around 100 kilometres (60 miles) an hour on the autobahn.

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The Complex World of Driving in Germany

Americans have it easy on the highways and byways of the U.S.A. You should try driving in Germany, for example. The complex system of road controls and signs are enough to give you a splitting headache trying to figure them all out.

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Drive-time became sleepy-time for one Frenchman on Germany's Autobahn until an off-duty police officer caught him napping while his inebriated passenger steered the car, police said on Monday.

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The saga continues here in Germany...limit speed or not to limit speed

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For years, Germans have worried that speed limits may be coming for the autobahn. On Wednesday, the first state-wide slowdown went into effect. Are more such regulations on the way?

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Cops in Germany pulled a car over on a Bavarian autobahn on Thursday evening. They could not believe their eyes when they inspected the vehicle.

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A teen-ager speeding through a German town in a go-kart with seven squad cars in hot pursuit managed to give the frustrated officers the slip, police said on Friday.

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Motorists hurtling down a motorway in southern Germany were astonished to see an elderly lady driving towards them on a motorized wheelchair at 3.75 miles per hour.

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"Thirteen tons of chocolate melted and flowed across the German Autobahn on Thursday night after the truck carrying it caught fire. Apparently, the truck suddenly caught on fire as it was cruising through the night near Ludwigsfelde just south of Berlin.

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Despite a centuries-old national obsession with rules, some Germans are finally considering trimming their forest of traffic signs (known as the Schilderwald).

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Germany's love of speed on the autobahn is colliding with fears about global warming, as its drivers spew tons of carbon dioxide into the air.

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Ask Marc Bongers about the wisdom of introducing a speed limit on the German autobahn, and he answers by revving the 435-horsepower engine of his specially modified Porsche impatiently. Slowpokes, he said, already spoil half the fun.

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The EU's environment commissioner has called for a maximum speed limit on German highways to slow down the notoriously swift traffic on the car-loving nation's autobahns, a newspaper reported today.

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