What motivates the 49-year-old trucker who travels more than 20 kilometers on a motorway at Brisbane with a truck that is ablaze? With that question, the police are in Queensland.
A young refugee was killed around 11 p.m. on Monday night when he tried to cross the motorway in Jabbeke, Belgium. He was scooped by a car and died on the spot from his injuries. The young man tried to avoid a police force.
Additional safety measures should make it more difficult for migrants to climb on board trucks. Belgium is full of problems along the E40 highway towards the coast and hopes that people smugglers will be moved by firmer action.
The German police are looking for a few chocolate thieves. In the night from Friday to Saturday, two followers full of chocolate were stolen in Freiburg. The 44 ton has a value of 400,000 euros, reports the Freiburg police.
In Los Angeles, a Tesla rammed a fire engine from behind during a test. No injuries were surprisingly enough.
A landslide in Colombia has killed at least 13 people. The victims were in a bus that fell through the avalanche into a ravine. There is a baby among the dead, reports the emergency response service.
The Belgian police had to flee shots on Friday morning when armed asylum seekers turned against them at a trucker's parking lot along the highway. Two agents were injured.
Ten construction workers were killed when a bridge under construction collapsed in the middle of Colombia. That reported the disaster response service of the country.
The University of California was charged with a student from San Diego because there was no one who stopped her when she was demonstrating on a highway against President Donald Trump. She was hit by a car there.
On the German highway near Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, a serious accident took place on Wednesday evening. The police report that several people have died. How much is still unclear.
A 7-year-old boy, who was badly injured last week when he crashed on the highway, has already stolen four times a car to drive to his mother, Cyndi Nichols claims on American TV.
In a serious car accident in the southwest of Mexico, ten people were killed and two people were injured. According to the authorities, the accident happened on the highway at the tourist resort of Acapulco.
A truck with thousands of avocados was completely burned out on Thursday in Texas, USA. The highway was closed for almost three hours so that emergency services could take away all the burnt avocados and the truck.
Hard drivers pay attention because the Belgian highway police has ordered 121 fast-paced Volvo cars. The cars with a 320 hp engine cost 76,000 euros each.
At least 25 passengers of a cruise ship were wounded on Christmas Day when the ship landed against a pier of a car bridge. The accident happened in the evening on the Rhine near Duisburg. The ship was on its way to the Netherlands and a part of the passengers is Dutch.
Heavy snowfall has turned large parts of northern and central Greece into a winter landscape. The state television (ERT) reported that hundreds of motorists were stuck all night until Saturday in a huge traffic jam about 100 kilometers north of Athens. Several trucks were stranded on the icy roads at this important north-south axis. The problem could only be solved in the early Saturday morning.
The National Transportation Safety Council (NTSB) of the US Tuesday admitted that the automatic brake system PTC was not installed on the route where a major train accident took place on Monday.
The train derailed in the north-west of the United States on Monday was driving too fast through a bend and then on a bridge over a highway. According to the authorities, the train should have braked before the bend and bridge and should travel no more than 50 kilometers per hour.
In a train accident in the US state of Washington, an unknown number of deaths and injuries have been reported. This was reported by the local sheriff on Twitter, but he could not name any numbers yet. The passenger train derailed early Monday morning (local time) near the city of Tacoma.
Weird images from Argentina where a couple was filmed while driving on the highway to the sexes. At the peak of the ride the man drove a fat 110 kilometers per hour.
Drivers driving on the US Interstate 24 highway near Georgia on Tuesday had to blink their eyes when they saw three huge elephants along the way. The African pelts were rescued from a trailer that was linked to a fire-laden truck.
Certainly eighteen people have come to life by a chain collision in China. Dozens of vehicles collapsed in the fog in the province of Anhui, according to state agency Xinhua.
A 26-year-old Brazilian man was arrested last weekend because he had driven too hard. In addition, he seemed to have looked too deep in his eyes and did not wear a belt. On the backside two carcasses were in a baby seat, reported Brazilian media.
A lorry lost 1500 crates of beer on the German carriageway between Florstadt and Wölfersheim by breaking a tarpaulin. Approximately 30,000 bottles came on the highway.
George Young, the older brother of AC / DC founders Angus and Malcolm, died at the age of 70. On his site, the Australian band writes that George Young was the mentor of the group. 'Without his help and support, there had never been an AC / DC.'
A mother with children who missed a gas station and soon became 'dry' on the highway, got a fine.
Due to an accident involving a tourist in Turkey, three Germans were killed and eleven injured. According to Turkish media, the driver of the van had lost power over the wheel during rain, causing the vehicle to bump into a palm tree.
The A4 motorway to The Hague has been closed between Burgerween and Leiden junction over the next three weekends. The A4 gets quieter asphalt. The bottleneck at Zoeterwoude, where the road goes from three to two lanes, is shifted 300 meters. As a result, the road user gets more time to insert.
A 74-year-old man from St. Willebrord was injured in an accident in Brabant Oudenbosch on Sunday evening, probably due to being in flight for the police.
A motorist could not believe his eyes when he saw a train on Saturday afternoon in Australian Perth. On the back of the train was a man holding one hand on the windscreen wiper of the rear train coup.
