After outpourings of public support, prosecutors in Munich on Monday have lifted the fine and driving ban an on-call emergency doctor was to get for speeding on his way to an urgent situation.
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.
Gamification has literally hit the streets in Hildesheim, where pedestrians at a busy crossing on Tuesday passed the time playing a classic arcade game with opponents across the road.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's party made a show of disunity with their Bavarian allies over the weekend as leading figures fought over plans to introduce a toll for foreign drivers on German roads.
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.
A top politician's suggestion that drivers should be charged €100 a year towards the upkeep of Germany's roads was met with derision on Tuesday. But how should Germany fill the black hole it its infrastructure budget?
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.
An average of 11 people died on German roads each day last year – an increase of nearly 10 percent over the year before, and the first rise in traffic fatalities for two decades, it was reported on Friday.
A new survey has given Germans the chance to vent over road works where nothing seems to be going on and other problems in the country's transport system.
The incoming Green-led state government of Baden-WĂĽrttemberg has unveiled plans to introduce a speed limit on the autobahns and replace vehicle tax with road tolls. It also wants to build wind farms in the region.
Berlin police have impounded an “ancient” Latvian tour bus they found creaking along the streets of the capital with a whopping 1.8 million kilometres on the odometer, they announced Wednesday.
The Federal Environment Agency is backing a nationwide road toll that would charge motorists depending on how far they drive, a media report said Thursday.
A seven-year-old boy was stopped by police in northern Germany while trying to plough snow with a front loader he borrowed from his parents' business, authorities said.
German authorities closed several motorways in the state of Bavaria on Tuesday after heavy snow increased the danger of avalanches, auto club ADAC reported.
A Porsche test driver lost control of a secret prototype car and died in an accident on the A5 motorway near Darmstadt early on Friday morning, police in the German state of Hesse said.
