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At a traffic light, a woman honks, then two men wreck her car and flee

From Die Zeit · () German

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  • Two men allegedly got out of their car at a traffic light in Heidelberg and struck and kicked a 47-year-old womanโ€™s vehicle.
  • The woman had honked to draw the menโ€™s attention to the green light, police said.
  • The men drove away, and the amount of damage remains unclear.

A simple honk at a green traffic light escalated into an attack on a car in Heidelberg. Police said two men got out of their vehicle and struck and kicked the car belonging to a 47-year-old woman.

The woman had honked to alert the men, who were stopped in the car ahead of her in Heidelbergโ€™s Weststadt district, that the light had turned green. After damaging her vehicle, the men got back into their car and drove away.

Police have not yet established how much damage the womanโ€™s car sustained.

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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.