Car Flies Through Air, Lands Into House Roof: Two Injured!

By Our Reporter

A peaceful evening in the small German town of Bohmte turned into a surreal scene of destruction after a car went airborne and crashed into the roof of a barn, leaving two people seriously injured — including a 7-year-old boy who was playing on a trampoline.

The bizarre accident unfolded on Saturday evening in Lower Saxony’s Osnabrück district. According to police, the vehicle — driven by a 42-year-old man — veered off the road at high speed, struck a parked car, and smashed through a garden hedge. On the other side, it plummeted roughly 1.5 meters (5 feet) into a sunken backyard where a child was playing on a trampoline.

The impact hurled the car further — likely due to a combination of terrain and the bounce from the trampoline — before it became airborne and crashed into the roof of a nearby barn, lodging itself about 3 meters (10 feet) off the ground.

“There was a massive clatter and we just thought: Help! What has happened?” one local resident told reporters. “Then we ran outside and saw the car in the roof.”

The 7-year-old boy on the trampoline suffered life-threatening injuries. A 43-year-old woman in the passenger seat — believed to be the driver’s wife — was also seriously hurt. Miraculously, the driver and three boys in the back seat (aged 11, 12, and 13) sustained only minor injuries.

Emergency services responded in force. The scene saw dozens of personnel — including firefighters, police, technical rescue units, and 12 ambulances — descend on the property. Two rescue helicopters hovered overhead while crews worked into the early hours of Sunday.

“This is clearly an extraordinary deployment,” said a fire brigade spokesperson.

Photos and videos from the crash site show a trail of devastation: shredded branches, shattered roofing tiles, a flattened hedge, and the mangled remains of the trampoline.

The car was eventually removed from the barn roof using a crane and impounded by authorities. The driver was taken to a local clinic where blood samples were collected, and his license was confiscated. Police ruled out alcohol as a factor in the crash, though investigations are still ongoing.

The operation to secure the scene and remove the vehicle continued until approximately 4 a.m. on Sunday.

The investigation remains active as authorities work to determine how a routine drive turned into one of the region’s most bewildering traffic incidents in recent memory.