A horse standing on the road cost a 21-year-old driver in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district his life. He was on the road 3073 near Rauschenberg early on Saturday morning, the police said. Just before a roundabout, the car collided with the horse. The young man was injured so badly in the accident at around 4:10 a.m. that he died at the scene of the accident. His two passengers were unharmed. The horse also succumbed to his injuries at the scene of the accident. The police are now investigating how the animal got onto the road. There is a paddock a few hundred meters from the scene of the accident. The amount of the total damage could not initially be quantified.


 A 53-year-old motorcyclist died in Langgöns (Gießen district) after colliding with a car. A 22-year-old car driver allegedly overlooked the motorcyclist approaching her on Friday evening while trying to overtake another car, the police said. The vehicles collided head-on, the 53-year-old driver was thrown through the air and suffered serious injuries from which he died. According to the police, the young woman was heavily drunk and did not have a driver's license.


 According to the authorities, there were injuries on Friday when a hot-air balloon made an emergency landing in the region of the small town of Schlitz in Hesse. The police in Fulda spoke in the evening of five inmates who would be taken to hospitals. Initially, nothing was known about the exact injuries. In the evening, people on the ground reported a rapidly sinking hot air balloon near Schlitz in the Vogelsberg district. According to initial investigations, the vehicle had previously started in the Niederaula area and later had to make an emergency landing for an unexplained cause. A helicopter was also used during the rescue operation, it said.


Two men were seriously injured in an accident in Wolfenhausen (Limburg-Weilburg district). On Saturday morning, the car went off the lane and rolled over, the police said. The vehicle had broken down on a tree. A man was trapped in the car and had to be rescued by the volunteer fire department. He was taken to the hospital in a rescue helicopter. The other man managed to break free after the impact. He was also taken to a clinic. The cause of the accident was initially unclear.


The police ended an argument between two men in the Frankfurt train station district with one shot. One of the men threatened the other with two knives on Saturday, the police said. When the attacker was about to be stabbed, the officers stopped the man with a shot. The attacker was injured in the process and, according to the information, is not in mortal danger.