An e-bike driver from Miesbach suffered serious head injuries when he fell in mid-May. Now the police are reporting sad news.
Update from June 13, 2020: Sad news in the case of the e-bike crash that was hit by a tractor-trailer: As reported by the police on Saturday, the 80-year-old suffered the consequences last Thursday (Corpus Christi, June 11, 2020) died in the accident clinic in Murnau.
Tractor unit overtakes e-bike: cyclist (80) falls and is seriously injured
First report from May 19, 2020: Wall - An overtaking maneuver had bad consequences on Monday afternoon (May 18) in the area of Wall (Warngau municipality). As the Holzkirchner police report, an e-bike rider fell and suffered very serious injuries. A rescue helicopter flew the 80-year-old to the accident clinic in Murnau.
According to the police, the accident occurred around 4 p.m. The 80-year-old Miesbacher cycled "down" on his e-bike on Miesbacher Straße, he was traveling alone. After the sharp left-hand bend and the confluence of the street "Auf der Leiten", a trailer truck wanted to overtake him.
What exactly happened then is still unclear. According to the police, the exact course of the accident requires further investigation. The officials assume that the driver of the articulated lorry, a 51-year-old man from the Rosenheim district, wanted to cut back onto the right-hand side of the MB 10 district road after overtaking the cyclist.
The reeving apparently triggered the fall
This reeving of the large tractor-trailer apparently caused the 80-year-old to fall. It is still unclear whether there was any contact between the truck and the e-bike.
During the fall, the Miesbacher suffered a serious head injury, even though he had worn a bicycle helmet, according to the police. An emergency helicopter was alerted. Property damage of around 500 euros was incurred on the e-bike.
In order to reconstruct the exact course of the accident, an accident analysis report was commissioned.
The passage through Wall had to be blocked until 8.30 p.m. during the accident recording. The Wall fire brigade, which had 20 active personnel and two vehicles, regulated the diversion.