US soldier hurt in truck collision near Ansbach was heavily intoxicated, authorities say

A U.S. soldier injured in a collision with a truck in Bavaria had a blood alcohol level nearly five times Germany’s legal limit, German police said. Red and blue lights flash on top of a police car in an undated photo. A U.S. soldier was hospitalized after his car struck an oncoming semitrailer truck near Ansbach. Police say he had a blood-alcohol level nearly five times Germany’s legal limit. (Carol Kaplan/Department of Defense) A U.S. soldier injured in a collision with an oncoming truck near Ansbach in northern Bavaria last week had a blood alcohol level nearly five times Germany’s legal limit, according to German police. The crash happened at about 12:25 a.m.

Friday morning on the B14 highway near Katterbach, when the 29-year-old soldier lost control of his car and struck the side of an oncoming semitrailer truck, local authorities said in an Oct. 30 release. The crash site is west of U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach’s Katterbach and Bismarck crossover gate, officials confirmed Monday. It was along the same stretch of highway where a U.S. military policeman fatally struck a 33-year-old German woman on a bike path in January 2025. The soldier suffered a broken arm and was taken to a hospital in Ansbach for treatment, police said. The truck driver was uninjured. A preliminary breathalyzer test indicated the