Overview

• An Audi A5 driven by a 19-year-old collided with a power distribution box on Langenforther Straße in Bothfeld around 20:15 on July 27.
• The impact left five streets—Meierwiesen, Langenforther Straße, Auf dem Limbrinke, An den Hilligenwöhren and Frickastraße—without electricity.
• Hannover’s fire department confirmed that the vehicle’s four occupants aged 18 to 19 escaped the crash without injuries.
• Enercity teams arrived Sunday night to repair the box and estimated that restoring power could take up to four hours, but outages persisted into Monday morning.
• Police have launched an investigation into the accident and have not yet determined what caused the driver to lose control.