Following an incident in which three men were injured in Ronnenberg police were searching on 12 November 2026 for a car that had fled the scene and the person who had been driving it. On the evening of 11 November, the vehicle drove into a group of people in the Empelde district. One man was seriously injured and two others sustained minor injuries. The circumstances were initially unclear.
According to Hannover Police Directorate The incident took place at around 10pm on Am Sportpark street. The as-yet unidentified vehicle reportedly drove into the group at excessive speed. The driver then left the scene in the car. In a statement on 12 November, police said they had no leads on the driver or the vehicle.
The seriously injured man and one of the two men with minor injuries were taken to hospital for treatment. The third injured man was discharged after receiving initial treatment at the scene. According to a police spokeswoman, as reported by Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the seriously injured man was not in any life-threatening danger.
Police deployed a large force in Empelde overnight. In addition to the traffic accident unit, the Hannover Criminal Investigation Unit attended the scene and took over the investigation. Firefighters illuminated the area so that police could collect evidence. Initial witnesses were questioned at the scene.
According to initial findings, there had reportedly been an argument before the incident. Police initially did not say what it was about or who was involved. Their investigation into the circumstances and a possible motive was also ongoing, according to their statement. The information published so far does not establish whether the vehicle was deliberately driven into the group.
Both witness interviews and the evidence collected are important to the investigation. They may help reconstruct what happened before and during the collision and identify the car that fled the scene. It was not known by the morning of 12 November what specific findings investigators had made so far.
Ronnenberg is in Hannover Region in Lower Saxony; Empelde is a district of the town. The search for the car and the investigation into the incident were being handled by police in Hanover. Whether there was a connection between the earlier reported argument and the car being driven into the group remained unclear, as did the identity of the driver, according to the information published at the time. Police had, however, confirmed that the three men were injured and that the car had fled.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).