Two people were killed and a dozen others were injured after being mown down by a car in a pedestrian area in Trier, in the southwest of the country.
One person was arrested, local police said.
The causes of this incident remain to be determined.
A car hit passers-by on Tuesday in a pedestrian zone in Trier, in southwestern Germany, killing two and injuring a dozen.
"We arrested one person, a vehicle was seized," local police said on their twitter account, adding that "the causes remain to be determined."
A car crashed into passers-by in Trier, a town in southwestern Germany, near the border with Luxembourg.
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