On the way to an operation in Holzkirchen, a police patrol car collided with a motorcycle on Whit Monday. The moped driver, a 17-year-old from Otterfing, fell heavily and broke his leg.
Holzkirchen - The blue light flashed, the St. Martin's horn shrilled: In order to quickly get to a reported fire in Birkenstraße, a patrol car of the Holzkirchen police had switched on its "special signals" on Whit Monday, in the evening around 18.20 clock. Nevertheless, an accident occurred during the journey: When turning from Carl-Weinberger-Straße into Rosenheimer Straße, the police Touran captured the motorcycle of a 17-year-old Otterfinger.
The investigation into the cause of the accident has taken over, as the police routine provides, by the neighbor inspection of the highway police station (APS) Holzkirchen. According to the APS, a fire had been reported in the early evening hours in a block of flats in Birkenstraße in the "Ländl". As it turned out later, a 97-year-old resident had burned food. The mission itself was quickly over. But how dangerous the fire was, the patrol of the Holzkirchen police could not know when they made their way to the scene.
The 27-year-old patrol officer, who was at the wheel, activated blue lights and sirens. According to the APS, the patrol car was about to turn left from the subordinate Carl-Weinberger-Straße into Rosenheimer Straße (MB 4). The young Otterfinger, who was traveling on his Yamaha in the direction of the center of the village, realized too late that the patrol car was cutting into the priority road. His light motorcycle crashed into the driver's side of the police Touran. The 17-year-old suffered a broken leg in the fall. The two officers were outwardly unharmed, according to the APS.
The motorcycle suffered a total economic loss (property damage: 4000 euros). The patrol car had to be towed, the repair costs estimated by the police at 7000 euros.
According to the APS, the question of guilt is still unresolved. It must be determined whether the 17-year-old could have recognized the "special signs" (blue lights and sirens) and thus the "extraordinary right of way" of the patrol car.
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