{"id":278595,"date":"2025-07-21T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278595\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:01:10","slug":"car-crashes-into-barn-roof-in-germany-child-among-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278595\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes into barn roof in Germany, child among seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Several people were injured when a car veered off the road, hit a seven-year-old boy on a trampoline and went flying into a barn roof, according to police in north-western Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the boy and the driver&#8217;s wife were seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The driver was an unidentified 42-year-old man, and his two sons, aged 11 and 12, and a 13-year-old passenger were also on board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They all emerged with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The car first collided with a parked vehicle in the town of Bohmte before breaking through a hedge and driving into a garden where it hit the boy, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It then went over uneven ground and was apparently catapulted into the air and ended up crashing into the roof of a neighbouring barn about 3 metres off the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two rescue helicopters and dozens of firefighters and ambulances were among the emergency services deployed in response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Videos from the scene show rescuers cutting through the roof, and the wreckage of a playground that the car ran through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The car had to be removed from the roof with a crane and was carted away by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><strong>AP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people were injured when a car veered off the road, hit a seven-year-old boy on a trampoline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[28978,55866,6640,2000,299,1824,89352],"class_list":{"0":"post-278595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-car","9":"tag-car-crash","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-road-accident"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114888289983055268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}