The former RTL Bachelor Sebastian Preuss has been convicted of a prohibited motorcycle race.
He himself had an accident at the time and was seriously injured.
Wolfratshausen
- He loved motorcycling.
But his last tour changed his life abruptly.
On May 30, 2020, ex-Bachelor Sebastian Preuss had a serious accident with a BMW XR 1000 machine on State Road 2065 between Münsing and Holzhausen.
As a result of excessive speed, the 31-year-old hit an oncoming BMW in a right-hand bend, got off the lane, raced over an embankment and was thrown into the air like a catapult with his machine.
Now the accident had consequences before the Wolfratshausen district court: The former kickboxer and TV star was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for prohibited motor vehicle racing and negligent endangerment of road traffic.
The sentence was suspended for two years.
The court refrained from a monetary requirement - public prosecutor Karolina Vogel had applied for 5,000 euros.
"You are punished enough with the consequences of the accident," said judge Helmut Berger in his judgment.
Ex-Bachelor Sebastian Preuss convicted of illegal racing: BMW motorcycle was brand new
“It feels like falling from heaven and waking up in hell”: This is how the defendant expressed his feelings in court.
Back then he was able to live out his passion for fast motorcycles to his heart's content.
As a BMW brand ambassador, the successful kickboxer has had the best machines at his disposal since 2018.
The model with which he caused the fatal accident had only just come on the market.
After the crash, Preuss spent almost four weeks in the hospital with a broken bone; today he is 70 percent severely disabled.
He can practically no longer practice his profession as a painter and varnisher, as an independent entrepreneur he employs four people.
Sport is reduced to strengthening exercises in the gym.
Ex-Bachelor traveling at up to 180 km / h on a motorcycle: Serious accident changes his life
Regarding the accident at the end of May last year, the 31-year-old explained that the oncoming BMW convertible, in which an Ickinger and his two daughters were driving home from sailing on Lake Starnberg, was “completely on my track”. “I was totally scared. He only dodged at the last second. ”The investigations by two experts came to a different conclusion. Although it is possible that the car came up to 20 centimeters beyond the median, said road traffic expert Erich Schöbel. However, this would not have put the motorcyclist in any distress if he had been traveling at an appropriate speed.
According to the expert's calculations, the ex-bachelor had raced across the country road at 170 to 180 kilometers per hour.
For the time of the collision, Schöbel calculated 115 to 130 kilometers per hour - a maximum of 70 km / h is allowed in the said section. And that because of the confusing route, the poor visibility and the poor road surface, as public prosecutor Vogel explicitly emphasized.
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The 207 hp BMW XR 1000 was a total loss after the accident between Holzhausen and Münsing.
The driver, ex-Bachelor Sebastian Preuss, suffered serious injuries.
© Hermsdorf-Hiss / Archive
The two experts were able to determine the speed relatively precisely because another motorcyclist, who was standing with friends on a dirt road by the roadside, happened to turn on his helmet camera when Preuss shot past with his 207-hp machine.
The witness's comment is also immortalized on the video: "Here comes a madman." Seconds later there was a crash.
Because of illegal motorcycle racing: Wolfratshausen district court convicts ex-Bachelor Sebastian Preuss
While the defense lawyer pleaded for the case to be punished as pure speeding according to the catalog of fines (“130 km / h with a 70s sign is not yet a danger to traffic”), the public prosecutor and the court saw the criminal offense of prohibited motor vehicle racing as a given. “They were brand ambassadors, they wanted to test it out,” the judge said. "But the track is not suitable for that, you go on a test track for something like that," emphasized Berger.
The defendant's undoing was that he had already been convicted of a prohibited motor vehicle race: at the end of October 2018, at the wheel of a Lamborghini, he had competed with others on the A8.
The penalty: 60 daily rates of 80 euros each and a six-month driving ban.
This time there was a suspension of three months in addition to the suspended sentence, and the accused has been without it for almost a year.
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