The leaders of the 29 NATO countries meet in Brussels on Wednesday for a two-day summit. The eye-catcher is Donald Trump, who is expected to again insist on higher defense spending. There is much uncertainty among the European allies about the attitude of the American President.
A 25-year-old drunk American driver returned to his burning car after a traffic accident to light his cigarette.
A Dutch driver of a van was killed this morning in a collision at the E19 Breda-Antwerp.
A bus accident in China has killed at least eighteen people. Fourteen others were injured because a coach collided head-on on a truck in the southeastern province of Hunan.
In the Netherlands, some Amsterdam and Rotterdam streets filled with honking Turks after Erdogan's victory, while the wedding stakes often attracted a lot of attention- and honking them. In Belgium they make short work of it.
On the Nigerian highway from Lagos to Ibadan Thursday a tank truck with petrol exploded near a viaduct. Dozens of cars that drove in the neighborhood flew into fire.
A naked man on the run from the police was hit by a truck when he tried to cross the highway. The accident happened to Stow, a city in the American state of Ohio.
More than thirty years after the 4-year-old Inass was found tortured and beaten to death along the A10, the police arrested her executioners. The parents of the toddler are officially suspected since yesterday of the mutilation and killing of their very own child.
An endearing photo of an American fire brigade commander who lulls a baby to sleep after an accident passes the world. A girl less than four months old was involved in a car accident with her older sisters and pregnant mother. The girl was completely upset and found peace in the arms of fireman Chris Blazek. 'This is what it is all about.'
Lava flows have reached a main road on Hawaii. The authorities have partially closed highway 132. According to local media, it is an important access road to the lower Puna area. Local residents have been called to safety.
Two reporters died in the United States on Monday when a tree fell on their car. The two were on their way for a report for the American news channel WYFF News 4 about the dangerous weather conditions in the American state of North Carolina.
Three people died due to an accident with a bus with supporters of a rugby club. Eleven people were seriously injured, according to French media. The accident was on the A7 motorway at Chantemerle-les-Blés on the night from Saturday to Sunday, just north of the city of Valence.
Unscrupulous smugglers in a wild chase by the Belgian police hung a two-year-old girl outside the car window in the hope that the police would stop the chase on their van. That proved in vain. In a tragic end, the fleeing van ran into a vehicle in front. The toddler was killed.
A 31-year-old Dutchman was killed by an accident on a German highway on Wednesday. The man saw too late that there was a traffic jam and could not brake on time. He rammed a truck and got trapped in his car. He died on the spot.
A part of a motorway in the west of Poland is Wednesday as a big chocolate bar after a truck has leaked about 12 tons of liquid chocolate.
The route of the six Balkan countries that want to join the European Union will look more like a hurdle than on a motorway. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of Heads of Government, said that in Tirana he was visiting the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Tusk called it in the EU's interest for the region to be 'fully' integrated into the union and, in his view, this will ultimately happen.
The crash with a car on California's Highway 1, which completely wiped out a family of eight, was, according to the police, a deliberate act. The analysis of the vehicle data and on-site evidence would have revealed no evidence of an accident, said Greg Baarts of the California Highway Patrol.
In order to realize a 'military highway' in Europe, EU countries must consider the requirements for, for example, the maximum height and weight of heavy military equipment when constructing or renovating infrastructure. Not everywhere in Europe are bridges and (rail) roads now robust enough for the transport of tanks.
Our southern neighbors are ready with the wedding stalls that regularly terrorize the highways. Anyone who intentionally blocks the road in Belgium can get a lifelong driving ban, is in a new law that will immediately come into effect.
The life-threatening antics of participants in a wedding procession have caused a chaos on the A12 towards Brussels on Saturday night. A fellow road user recorded with a smartphone how revelers stopped in the middle of the highway to throw the groom in the air. Minister of Mobility Ben Weyts reacts furiously. 'It is time that examples are set. Disgusted. The street is not theirs. '
A nine-year-old football supporter from Germany was accidentally left by a company along a highway. The group made a stop at a roadside restaurant, but forgot to take the boy with them. The police had to come to the house to deliver the boy safely back home.
Seventy-eight people were injured due to a serious traffic accident in Western Canada. On Sunday evening local time two coaches, two trucks and two passenger cars collided, on a highway about 25 kilometers north of Hope, reports news channel CBC News.
Two men who came to the aid of the German highway in case of an accident had to pay for it with death. The men aged 44 and 49 stopped to help a woman who had driven her car against the guardrail on the A70 at Schweinfurt on the night from Saturday to Sunday.
Nine pupils were killed in India when they were hit by a SUV that drove far too fast when crossing a busy road. The children were on their way home from school when the accident happened at Muzaffarpur, according to Indian media.
On the highway at Gildehaus, just over the border at Oldenzaal, the German police arrested a motorist who was traveling from the Netherlands with 770,000 euros 'in his pocket'. That amount was professionally hidden in the fuel tank. He was brought on Friday in Osnabrück on suspicion of money laundering. His nationality has not been disclosed.
The far-right Flemish nationalist party Voorpost has started a remarkable campaign. The organization has posted posters along nineteen motorway ramps with the text 'Beware! Crossing illegals'.
Soldiers and defense equipment must be able to move more smoothly through Europe in the future. A Dutch proposal to speed up the now often syrupy procedures by obtaining diplomatic consent within five days can count on broad support from NATO countries.
A group of escaped horses caused traffic problems by running up a British motorway. The animals stormed motorists across the M60 at Manchester, reporting the Manchester Evening News newspaper. They could be embedded later.
The recovery of the huge gap in the German A20 motorway in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will take at least another three years. The autobahn at Tribsees has collapsed over a length of almost 100 meters.
The 21-year old Laurent from the Belgian Marche will remember his last trip to Brussels for a long time. After a night out with friends, he jumped last week for the joke on the trailer of a truck waiting for the traffic light. He should not have done that better.
