Eighty-six camels were killed on Thursday morning, when flames engulfed a building at a family-run animal farm in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wüttermberg. The blaze also caused €1 million worth of damage, said police.
German Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer said more warning signs were needed on the nation's motorways after a series of fatal crashes resulting from drivers travelling in the wrong direction.
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.
German police arrested on Wednesday morning a truck driver who crashed into a bus stop, injuring five children, including two schoolgirls seriously, and spilling gravel from the vehicle all over the road.
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.
A German amateur mountain climber and J.R.R. Tolkien fan was killed climbing a New Zealand mountain used as a set in Peter Jackson's new hit film The Hobbit, it was reported Thursday.
Bavarian police were on Wednesday still trying to figure out why a man and woman killed by a train on Christmas Eve were standing on railway tracks - and who they were.
Snow and freezing rain resulted in more than 80 car accidents in northern Germany, leaving three people slightly injured people, but causing no fatalities.
Two German tourists and an Australian have been rescued following two days in the sea in the central Philippines after their boat capsized while they were island hopping, the coast guard said Friday.
A Düsseldorf bus driver saved the lives of his three passengers on Wednesday evening, after his bus broke down as it was crossing railroad tracks - with freight trains approaching from both directions.
Eight people including four children were killed on Saturday afternoon when two small planes crashed into each other in central Germany, leaving investigators sifting through a snowy field looking for clues.
Four German airline employees and three Egyptians were killed in a bus crash near an Egyptian Red Sea resort early on Sunday morning, police officials said. Two other Germans were badly injured.
Three runaway freight cars crashed into a regional Stuttgart commuter train station early Friday morning, causing major damage to the platform and disrupting local and regional rail travel.
The fire which killed 14 people at a workshop for the disabled in the Black Forest on Monday was probably caused by a gas leak, officials said on Tuesday evening.
At least 14 people were killed on Monday when a fire spread through a workshop for people with disabilities in southern Germany. Seven more are said to have been injured.
Six people were killed and two injured on Sunday morning in a four-car autobahn pile-up in southern Germany. Police said the crash was probably caused by a car going the wrong direction.
A desperate mother of four suffocated three of her children, loaded them into her car and then crashed deliberately on an autobahn in an attempt to kill herself, Bavarian police said on Thursday.
Office staff in Wiesbaden have been told to get an expert to open the window whenever they want fresh air after a colleague was hit by a pane of glass that fell from the building – just months after all the windows were checked.
A mother, father and their twin daughters were killed on an autobahn near Baden-Baden on Monday after getting out of their car which had been in a crash. A third car ploughed into the family as they were waiting for help.
A stuntman who worked with Tom Cruise on the Mission Impossible films has told how he nearly burned to death while tied down at a show in Germany – as assistants fought the flames with fire extinguishers that did not work.
Five people died early Sunday morning after a car travelling the wrong way up a motorway in western Germany hit another vehicle head-on. Police said on Sunday that getting into the wreckage was proving difficult.
More than 50 people were badly affected by fumes from a toilet at a Berlin airport on Saturday – after cleaners working overnight used the wrong mixture of disinfectant.
