Heat horror on the train: Ottobrunner collapses on the journey - and is now looking for his rescuers
Created: 06/25/2022, 14:27
By: Sophia Oberhuber
Help on the train: In a carriage of the BRB, formerly Meridian, young women provided first aid with the presence of mind.
© Matthias Balk/dpa
A summer day, heat on the train, suddenly a flickering before the eyes: a man collapses.
But a group of women helps him.
Now he is looking for his rescuers.
Ottobrun – What Patrick von Graeve experienced last week is the nightmare of many.
He lost consciousness on the train.
But his seat neighbors were immediately on the spot.
Now the man from Ottobrunn is looking for the unknown helpers – to say thank you.
38-year-old collapses at high temperatures on the train - group of women rushes to help
Von Graeve visited a friend in Chiemgau on Corpus Christi.
In the early afternoon, the 38-year-old took the train back to Munich.
A large group of young women got on in Prien.
It happened just a few minutes after leaving Rosenheim: “My eyes suddenly turned purple and black.
I couldn't see anything and I was sweating profusely.
Then I hit my head on the tabletop,” Ottobrunner remembers the collapse.
As the tour group later reported to him, he was unconscious for about a minute.
The rescuers took care of it immediately, fetched the train driver, organized water and looked for a doctor on the train.
Little by little, Graeve got better and finally got out at Ostbahnhof.
The helpers accompanied him there to the taxi.
"I don't know what would have happened if nobody had helped me," he says.
Ottobrunner is looking for his first aiders: "I would really like to thank the helpers"
It is not clear to him exactly why the 38-year-old collapsed.
He is healthy and athletic.
A visit to the doctor confirmed this.
"I guess I just didn't drink enough.
It was also very warm on the train because the air conditioning was out of order.” On request from the Bavarian Regiobahn (BRB), which operates the route, a spokeswoman said that they very much regretted the failure of the air conditioning.
These would be systematically checked before the summer.
But this year there is also a special feature: "Because of the 9-euro ticket, more people get on and off at the stops." This means that the doors stay open longer and more warm air flows into the train.
One thing hasn't gotten out of Graeve's head since the train journey: "I'd just really like to thank the helpers." Ottobrunner has no names, no information about the rescuers.
Otherwise he would have searched himself.
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Angelika Denk-Schittl (65) from Sendling also had a chaos train ride.
She was with her husband in Salzburger Land.
Everything went wrong on the drive home.
"The train was already late." Then just before Munich the stop - "Somewhere in the middle of nowhere near Moosach the train just stopped!" The announcement: The train had been "misdirected" - the train driver was waiting to go to the main station be able.
"We stood for almost two hours.
It was hot.
Children were screaming.” The air conditioning had failed.
“But the staff was great.
They gave out water, nice announcements kept coming.” When Denk-Schittl finally arrives and there are still problems with the U4/U5, she's had enough.
"We took a taxi home."
Notes: Anyone with information about von Graeve's rescuers should contact the editorial team on Tel. 089/530 65 22 or send an email to locales@tz-online.de.
