German police: Truck driver blown off bridge during storm

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany said Wednesday that a truck driver likely fell to his death after being blown off a bridge during a storm earlier this week. The 53-year-old’s body was found Monday below the Ambach Valley highway bridge by a passer-by. Authorities initially investigated the death as a possible suicide. But German news agency dpa quoted police saying that further evidence showed the driver had probably stopped to tighten a tarpaulin  on his truck when he was caught by a strong gust of wind and fell off the 230-feet-high bridge. The man’s death raises the death toll from the storms that battered northern Europe over the past week to at least 15.