Two courageous first aiders saved the life of a young driver after a horrific accident with their courageous actions on Tuesday evening.
The helpers can't get the dramatic images out of their heads.
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 traveling too fast.
The Golf literally wrapped itself around a tree next to the road and caught fire immediately.
24 year old sitting in front of the television.
Suddenly there is a bang
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 via 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.
Neighbor pulls man out of the car, but his clothes are on fire
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.
“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."
19 year old was bleeding on his head and screaming
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 ambulance service drove the accident driver to the Bogenhausen Clinic in Munich after the first aid on site - he suffered severe burns on his back.
“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”.
First aiders can't get pictures out of the head
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.
Tamara Detsch cannot let go of the pictures.
"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."
Police chief: Without them the driver would no longer live
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: "It was above all my neighbor who saved the man." However, she also realized: "If we hadn't heard anything about the accident, the man would probably have been burned." Erding's chief of police, Rainer Kroschwald, also sees it this way: “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.
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