Two brave first aiders saved the life of a young driver after a horrific accident with their courageous actions.
But they can't get the dramatic images out of their heads.
A
car
came
off the road
in
Oberding
on Tuesday evening
, crashed into a tree and
caught fire
.
Tamara Detsch heard the young driver
screaming in despair
- and rushed to his aid.
Her neighbor pulled the 19-year-old out of the car and freed him from the
burning clothes.
Oberding -
Harald Pataschitsch, deputy head of the Erdingen police, reports that the 19-year-old driver of a
VW Golf
from the Erding district was on the Ferstl-Straße from
Oberding towards Hallbergmoos
.
At around 10 p.m. he went off the
road
to the left for an unexplained cause
.
At the time of the accident, the road was wet and visibility was restricted.
The driver was probably driving
too fast
.
The Golf literally wrapped itself around a tree next to the road and
caught fire immediately
.
Accident in Oberding: The car comes off the road, crashes into a tree - and immediately catches fire
Fortunately,
two residents
in the small town of Oberdingermoos heard about this and rushed to
help
.
A 43-year-old Pole ran from his apartment to the
burning vehicle
and pulled the 19-year-old out of the completely deformed wreck over the passenger side.
Seconds later, Tamara Detsch joined them.
She lives about 150 meters from the scene of the accident.
Together with her neighbor
,
she
removed
the
burning clothes from
the 19-year-old
.
Nevertheless, the young man suffered
severe burns,
according to police
.
Oberding: The resident suddenly hears a loud pop - and a man screams for help
The medical assistant told our newspaper: "I was sitting with my boyfriend in front of the TV when suddenly there was a
loud bang
." Then she heard a man scream.
“He called for help,”
recalls Detsch.
Immediately she sprinted from the first floor across the courtyard to the street.
“My neighbor had just started to free the driver.” When the 19-year-old was lying next to his vehicle, Detsch saw the burning jacket.
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After he got off the road, the car literally wrapped itself around the tree and caught fire.
© Günther Herkner
Neighbor pulls the 19-year-old out of a burning car
“We took it off immediately,” recalls the 24-year-old.
His hair was also singed.
Because the victim was now
sitting
bare-chested in the cold
, the neighbor dashed off and got blankets and a stool.
"The driver was approachable the whole time, but completely blown by the wind," reports the first aider.
"He
kept saying
in
shock
that he'd screwed up a lot."
Detsch was able to use her
professional knowledge
and immediately checked for
injuries
.
“His head was bleeding,” she says.
Her friend Michael Streblow (26) dialed the emergency number.
“The
emergency services were there after ten minutes
, but it felt like an eternity,” says the 24-year-old.
"The emergency services were there after ten minutes - but it felt like an eternity"
The
ambulance service
drove the accident
driver
after the
first aid
on site - he suffered severe burns on his back - to the
Bogenhausen Clinic
in Munich.
"According to the current state of knowledge,
there
is
no danger to life
", reports Pataschitsch, but also emphasizes "that the first aiders saved the man's life".
He
puts the property damage
at around 12,000 euros.
In addition to the
police
and the ambulance service with an emergency doctor, the
Oberding volunteer fire brigade
with 20 volunteers was
at the scene of the accident
.
Accident in Oberding: 19-year-old suffers severe burns - no mortal danger
The
images
can not be Tamara Detsch busier.
"I hardly slept all night and trembled all over my body." She was occupied with the experience all the time.
"It's good that I can talk to my boyfriend about it." When she saw the
first accident pictures
on the Facebook page of the
Erdinger / Dorfener Anzeiger
that
night
, she reacted in shock.
"It's really madness that he survived it when you look at the car like that."
After the rescue: accident pictures shock the helper from Oberding
Detsch also thinks about himself. "I will now
drive
more carefully and always make sure that I am not too fast." For her it is a
matter of course
to have
helped
immediately
.
She remains modest: "Above all, it was my neighbor who saved the man."
Police emphasize: motorists owe their lives to residents
However, she also realized: “If we had
n't noticed anything about
the
accident
, the
man would probably have been burned
.” This is how Erding's police chief Rainer Kroschwald sees it: “The young driver
owes his life to
the two first aiders
.
You can't appreciate that highly enough. ”He himself called Tamara Detsch - and thanked him personally.
(ham)
