Two teenagers throw about 200 stones from Hamburg motorway bridge, damaging eight cars

What happened

Two boys, aged 14 and 18, threw about 200 gravel stones from a motorway bridge over the A7 near Hamburg on the evening of Tuesday, 3 November, police said. The stones struck at least eight vehicles near the Stellinger Tunnel, and nobody was injured. Police temporarily detained both boys, and they have since been released.

The motorway was closed in both directions for a short time after the first emergency calls came in. Police reported that the carriageway was fully blocked at the Stellinger Tunnel around 22:30. Bild, which first reported the incident, said about ten patrol cars went to the scene.

A separate incident on the same motorway

A separate stone-throwing incident took place on the A7 at Hamburg-Brahmfeld at the weekend. Unknown people threw stones there, damaging cars and lightly injuring a 27-year-old passenger, who was hit on the hand by flying glass splinters and did not need medical treatment. According to the reports, two cars were hit by stones under a bridge between the Bahrenfeld and Volkspark junctions. Police opened a search but found no suspects, and the case is being investigated on suspicion of dangerous interference with road traffic.

Open questions

Police are checking whether the incidents are linked to other stone-throwing on Sunday evening. No further details on a possible connection have been published so far.