A parcel delivery man probably relied too much on his GPS: Instead of the valley station, the 24-year-old headed for the Jenner summit.
Berchtesgaden - Time and again, drivers let their navigation systems take them down the craziest routes.
But what happened to a parcel driver (24) in Berchtesgadener Land * can hardly be topped.
The Italian with Kosovar roots was supposed to deliver a shipment to the Jennerbahn at Königssee - and instead of going to the valley station, drove towards the summit house!
Parcel driver drives to the summit instead of to the valley station
He could easily have headed for the valley station of the Jennerbahn in Königssee *. But the young man, blindly following his GPS, set off with his van to the Hinterbrand hiking car park, above Königssee. The public road ends there. Unimpressed by all the blocking signs, the parcel deliverer drove on the Königsweg, which had been developed as a forest road, towards the middle station of the Jennerbahn.
“It's a gravel road that you can still drive on with a normal car,” says Alexander Eder from Berchtesgadener Bergbahnen.
The lonely mountain backdrop did not induce the parcel driver, who was unfamiliar with the location, to check his route planning again, not even when the Königsweg after the middle station became steeper and more impassable: “The path is arched from there so that the water can run off better, I would be here just continue driving with an all-terrain vehicle, ”says Eder.
After all, the parcel driver made it to around 400 meters from the summit station, but there was snow * there.
Parcel delivery man stayed at the summit of the Jenner
At an altitude of 1750 meters, his Sprinter began to slide, the car lay sideways and got stuck in a moat.
In his distress, the driver ran to the mountain station, but it is orphaned due to a break in operation.
His cell phone battery was dead, so he slept in the cab while his boss tried desperately to call him.
In the morning, the man descended for two hours to the middle station, where he met workers from the Jennerbahn.
Yesterday his van was recovered with an all-terrain tow truck.
Andreas Hölzl from the Berchtesgaden police station shakes his head: “The man should have noticed that he was on the wrong path.
At another point on the way he could have crashed 200 meters. ”
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