Serious accident on A7 near Hildesheim: Seven injured in collision

Serious accident on A7 near Hildesheim: Seven injured in collision

On Saturday afternoon, July 13, 2025, a tragic traffic accident occurred shortly before the Hildesheim-Drispenstedt junction. Around 1:40 p.m. there was a chain reaction in which six vehicles were involved in a serious accident. A total of seven people suffered injuries, including two children aged seven and nine, who were luckily only slightly injured. The situation at the scene of the accident was tense: A 26-year-old driver from Witzenhausen steered his fully occupied Ford small bus on two standing vehicles, which triggered the collision, reports the Oldenburger Zeitung .

As the course of the accident shows, several drivers were surprised by the staggering traffic. In the narrowed construction site area, drivers had to brake abruptly on the left lane. A 63-year-old Nuremberg noticed this too late and collided with the back of the small bus. As reported, the accident area was heavily secured; The Hildesheim professional fire brigade was called with a special barrier trailer to secure the accident site.

Details on the accident

The injured were hit differently. While the two children only wore slight injuries in the minibus, a 38-year-old woman who was sitting in a BMW suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries. Other participants, including a 45-year-old and a 59-year-old man from Bremen, also had to be brought to the Hildesheim hospitals with minor injuries. A Ford transporter and another VW were also affected and had to be towed. Overall, the incident brought a traffic jam of about eleven kilometers with it, and the highway was completely closed between 2:00 p.m. and 3:20 p.m. Hildesheimer general .

statistical classification and traffic safety

Such accidents are a serious memory of the dangers lurking in road traffic. The increasing number of accidents, especially in the construction site area, raises questions about security. According to Destatis shows the road traffic accident statistics clear structures and dependencies between different accident scenarios and causes. The incidents on Autobahn 7 have accumulated since the start of the holiday, so that it seems urgent for measures to improve traffic education and infrastructure.

The authorities now check which measures can be taken to increase security in risk areas. The incident requires a rethink in terms of traffic legislation and monitoring in road construction to remedy weaving errors in the traffic safety situation and prevent future accidents.