Slipped off the pedal: Mercedes breaks through house wall - danger of collapse

A Mercedes Vito crashed through a gate in Vierkirchen and then into the kitchen of a family of four.

• A Mercedes driver crashed into a house wall in Vierkirchen.

• The 62-year-old slipped his foot on the accelerator.

• The house of a family of four is currently not habitable.

Vierkirchen -

A 63-year-old from Munich was driving his

on

Tuesday around 10.30 a.m.

on Guttenbrunnstraße in Vierkirchen in the direction of Ganghofer Straße.

At the junction with Ganghofer Strasse, the man slipped his foot from the

onto the

.

Due to a serious

, he could no longer lift his leg and crashed straight into a yard gate, which was

thrown

against a

parked on the property

.

The

then broke through

the

the single

home of a family of

and only came

to a stop

in the

.

Thank goodness none of the family was home at this point.

Accident in Vierkirchen: driver slips off the pedal - Mercedes crashes into the wall of the house

The pensioner suffered minor

and had

to be brought to the Pfaffenhofen Clinic

by the

.

The total damage is around

.

After consultation with the competent prosecutor who was

the

ensured.

A neighbor who

noticed

the

then observed how "a number of neighbors helped the man out of the car," said the woman.

She herself then

notified

the

.

Mercedes races into the wall of the house: the family is accommodated in a hotel - the house is in danger of collapsing

As the house owner told the local newspaper, the

currently not allowed into the

.

"We have been assigned a

for two days, after which we can stay with friends," said the mother of two.

Since the

is a load-bearing

,

the Vierkirchen fire brigade and THW

had to be called in to rescue the

.

The Vierkirchen fire department was the first to be on site.

"We looked after the injured man until the rescue arrived," said Commander Manfred Huber.

Then his people would have

supported

the

together with the THW

.

The Vierkirchen fire brigade was on site with three emergency vehicles and around 15 personnel, the THW with four vehicles.

Only after the

of the

by

the Vito could from a

be salvaged.

A structural engineer is currently checking whether the

house in

collapsing is still habitable.

The Dachau police do not currently have any results.

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