Seriously injured and trapped: tree falls on pedestrians
Created: 02/17/2022, 10:42 am
Storm low Ylenia moves over Germany.
© Symbolic photo: Panthermedia/OlafNaami
Germering - Storm Ylenia is also sweeping over Germering.
A serious accident happened on Thursday morning.
A tree fell on a man.
"A 52-year-old woman from Germering was on Maistraße in Germering when she found a man lying unconscious under a broken tree," says police commissioner Tobias Hollaus.
She then dialed the police emergency number and thus set the rescue chain in motion.
According to current knowledge, the
36-year-old Germeringer
was on foot on his way to his car parked on Maistraße. When he wanted to get into it, he was hit by a coniferous tree that had fallen over due to the storm and was
trapped
underneath .
The tree had to be removed by the fire brigade, who were also informed, using technical equipment.
According to the current status, the Germeringer
is out of danger
and was seriously injured by the rescue service in a hospital.
The Mercedes of the Germeringer was also damaged by the fallen tree, which was several meters long.
The
property damage
incurred is estimated at a
five-digit value
.
Firefighters secured where the tree fell.
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