Schoolboy, seven, seriously injured after being hit by a car while he was playing on a trampoline

Daily Mail​

20-07-2025

A seven-year-old boy has been left with serious injuries after being hit by a car while he was playing on a trampoline.
Police in northwestern Germany on Sunday said that several people, including the young child, were wounded when a car veered off a road yesterday evening.
Officers said the car first collided with a parked vehicle in the town of Bohmte, broke through a hedge and drove into a garden where it hit the boy.
The car then went over uneven ground and it was apparently catapulted into the air and ended up crashing into the roof of a neighboring barn about 10ft off the ground.
The boy was seriously hurt, the police statement said. German newspaper Welt reported that authorities have not ruled out the possibility of the injuries being life-threatening.
The driver was an unidentified 42-year-old man, and his wife was also left seriously injured following the devastating crash.
Their two sons, ages 11 and 12, and a 13-year-old passenger were also on board, who like the driver, emerged with minor injuries.
Dozens of firefighters, as well as a dozen ambulances and two rescue helicopters were among the emergency services deployed in response.
'We were alerted around 8pm to an accident with several people trapped,' a spokesperson said.
'A very unusual operation,' the fire department spokesperson continued.
Images from the scene showed rescuers cutting through the roof, and wreckage of a playground that the car ran through.
The car had to be removed from the roof with a crane and was carted away by police.
A team from the ADAC (German Automobile Club) took over the recovery of the vehicle. 'The police informed us that the car was supposed to be on the first floor,' reported an employee.
On site, emergency personnel developed a plan and removed the wreckage from the building using two cranes.
'The car was successfully recovered without further damage to the building,' the employee told German newspaper Bild.
'You see a car in a ditch every day. But I've never experienced anything like this.'
The rescue operations continued well into the night.
Around 50 firefighters, twelve volunteers from the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), more than a dozen police officers, emergency chaplains, as well as twelve ambulances and two rescue helicopters were deployed.
Police have begun investigating the cause of the accident. A blood sample was taken from the driver.
His driver's license and the vehicle were confiscated by order of the public prosecutor's office. Initial findings indicate that alcohol was not a factor.