Overview
- A single‑vehicle crash between Autobahndreieck Salzgitter and Bockenem sent two 49‑year‑old women to hospital with serious injuries and briefly closed the northbound carriageway.
- A separate multi‑vehicle rear‑end collision near Nersingen involved five cars, injured seven people lightly and one person moderately, and required a major emergency response.
- Police said the Salzgitter–Bockenem crash was caused by inappropriate speed on a rain‑slick road, and prosecutors have opened negligent bodily‑harm proceedings after the Nersingen chain collision.
- The Nersingen crash produced estimated property damage of about €85,000, left parts of the A7 blocked for roughly two hours, and sent all injured people to nearby hospitals.
- The incidents highlight how summer storms, wet surfaces and dense motorway traffic can quickly produce serious single‑vehicle crashes and cascading chain collisions that disrupt a major north–south route.