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Eight-year-old hit in Spandau: driver laughs and runs away!
An eight-year-old boy was hit by a driver in Berlin-Spandau who then fled. Investigations are ongoing.
Eight-year-old hit in Spandau: driver laughs and runs away!
On Friday morning, October 25, 2025, a shocking incident occurred in Berlin-Spandau, more precisely in the Hakenfelde district. An eight-year-old boy wanted to cross Neuendorfer Strasse around 8:40 a.m. when the light was green when he was hit by a driver. The driver, an unknown person according to initial reports, was driving a Mercedes and fled after the collision, first stopping at a nearby bus stop to look out the window and laugh before fleeing. Tagesspiegel reports that ...
The child suffered an injury to his nose and also complained of pain in the left side of his body. After the incident, the boy, despite his shock and pain, returned to his day care center and told a teacher about the accident. However, he did not receive the medical help he needed because the teacher did not alert his carer or the emergency services. It was only around midday, when the boy himself called his carer, that the situation was taken seriously. She picked him up and together they went to the police to file a report, while rescue workers from the Berlin fire department took the boy to a hospital for inpatient treatment. Berlin.de reports that...
Focus on children's road safety
The incident sheds light on children's road safety, an issue that has been receiving increasing attention recently. According to current statistics, around 25,800 children under 15 were injured in road traffic accidents in 2022, an increase of 16% compared to 2021. What's particularly frightening is that, on average, a child is injured or killed in a traffic accident every 20 minutes. Most accidents often occur on the way to school - especially Monday to Friday between 7 and 8 a.m., which accounts for 14% of all accidents in this category. [Destatis reports that...](https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressreleases/ Zahl-der-Woche/2023/PD23_33_p002.html)
Considering these figures, it becomes clear how important it is to create increased awareness of road safety for both children and drivers. The police in Berlin have already started investigating the incident on Friday and it remains to be hoped that the fleeing driver will be found quickly before he causes further damage.
Parents and educators are now required to pay even more attention to traffic education and to make children aware of how they should behave in traffic. It is everyone's responsibility to ensure that such incidents do not happen again.