Major German motorway closed after lorry overturns near Cologne

NAMPA / DPA
2025-09-01
Cologne (dpa) - Parts of a major motorway running through western Germany were closed after a lorry overturned near Cologne on Monday morning. The vehicle, carrying electronic appliances, crashed on the A3 motorway near Bad Honnef, a town on the Rhine River south of Bonn, a police spokesman said. As a result of the accident, Germany's second-longest Autobahn - which stretches 769 kilometres from the Dutch border all the way to Austria - has been......
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