If a person needs help, it has to be done quickly.
Cars parked inappropriately, however, delay a quick deployment of the emergency services.
Schäftlarn - When a person needs help, it has to be done quickly: an average of four minutes after the alarm goes off, the fire brigade volunteers move out.
Sometimes they are literally slowed down on the approach.
The reason for this is the fact that cars are parked in an offset manner, which delay the rapid deployment of the emergency services.
Then it is a matter of backing up the emergency vehicles, maneuvering or even taking a detour.
“Valuable time is lost here.
Rapid help is delayed and in the worst case it can even cost people lives, ”said Mayor Christian Fürst, addressing the subject of“ keeping escape routes free ”in the last communal letter.
He refers to the road traffic regulations.
“A minimum passage width of 3.05 meters must always be observed.
A point that the garbage disposal is grateful for adhering to. "
"Only helps Bullhorn"
Daniel Buck, first in command of the Hohenschäftlarner Wehr, knows the situation only too well.
"The only thing that helps is to draw attention to yourself with the special signal or bullhorn," he reports.
"We have already got out and asked the vehicle driver to drive away," says Daniel Buck.
There are not many other options, "because", emphasizes Bucks colleague from Ebenhausen, Alexander Kaiser, "turning around with a large fire engine in a narrow, parked local street is almost impossible."
The streets right next to the fire station are not spared from parking ends.
Especially on Schorner Strasse, which is used by the Hohenschäftlarn fire brigade as an exit towards Starnberger Strasse, there have been frequent bottlenecks in recent years.
“Then there were comments like 'I'm just going to get some rolls'.
A lady gave herself extra time to get in - you just don't understand, ”says Alexander Kaiser
"Maneuvering, maneuvering, maneuvering"
A problem that Martin Seitner from Neufahrner Wehr can understand only too well.
On the whole, there are few difficulties in the district, these are also more likely in front of the own tool shed.
There are no parking signs here on Haarkirchener Straße, but not everyone abides by them.
"And when a delivery truck is parked there and we have to move out, it just has to be maneuvered, maneuvered and then maneuvered again."
Some citizens believe that offset parking can provide some kind of traffic calming.
Kaiser doubts that this is true.
"The traffic just gets louder and more prone to traffic jams."
He considers parking in blind spots such as crossroads, opposite fire service entrances or emergency access to old people's homes as well as directly in a bridge exit to be just as dangerous.
"Then the drivers of the emergency vehicles, as well as all other road users, suddenly see themselves in front of a parked vehicle that is not visible in front of them, and it is not possible to evade due to the oncoming traffic," said the first commander of the Ebenhauser Wehr.
Motorists remain seated on damage
“Pedestrians often have to move onto the lane due to vehicles that are parked in such an awkward way, and thus represent further obstacles,” says Alexander Kaiser.
And: These unnecessary hindrances are not only dangerous for all passers-by but can also put a strain on your wallet. "You should be left with some damage yourself," he emphasizes, "if you intentionally or grossly negligently obstruct traffic and provoke accidents in this way."
