As of: February 20, 2024, 8:00 p.m
By: Thomas Zimmerly
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THW helpers clearing out the food, which was later all destroyed.
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It took more than 40 THW Dachau emergency services personnel 17 hours on the night of January 8th to rescue a crashed tractor-trailer that was carrying tons of food (we reported).
The goods were destroyed at the time.
A reader of the local newspaper now contacted us and asked: Why?
Wiedenzhausen
- milk, yoghurt, meat, sausage and much more: On Monday, January 8th, the truck drove through the night on state highway 2051, fully loaded with goods from a food discounter.
Then it happened in Buchwald near Wiedenzhausen: the tractor-trailer left the road in slippery snow and ended up in the ditch.
For the next 17 hours in freezing temperatures, 40 people from THW Dachau spent the next 17 hours trying to get the truck back on the road.
They had to lift it, dig out the soil soaked with diesel and oil, but most importantly, they had to clear out the truck.
There was a lot of broken goods that his colleagues had to tackle individually, said THW deputy local representative and press spokesman Sven Langer, who spoke of “backbreaking Sisyphean work”.
According to Langer, all food was destroyed at that time.
A reader of the local newspaper found out about this and now asks himself: “If there were impeccable goods, why were they destroyed?
Couldn’t they have been sold or donated to the Dachauer Tafel?”
The accident commissioner is responsible for all types of transport damage
“We wouldn’t be against it,” says Albert Solleder, who is responsible for personnel and logistics at the Dachauer Tafel.
The aid facility would be happy to accept food – in usable quantities, of course.
Only: “Our hearts were bleeding to have to destroy the things,” says Langer, but the THW was only the executive body and acted on instructions.
Because when it comes to all kinds of transport damage, the accident commissioner comes into play.
A term that originally comes from seafaring.
Regardless of whether it is food, machinery or raw materials, this expert will take care of inspecting the damage.
“Back-breaking Sisyphean work”: THW Dachau spent 17 hours in the freezing cold rescuing the damaged tractor-trailer and getting its load out.
© THW
One of them is Jürgen Sellmayer from the engineering and expert office KS Gutachten in Attaching (Freising district).
He says: “Only if it makes economic sense” will damaged goods be reused.
Food is often branded products from other manufacturers that the discounter cannot simply continue to use.
First you have to get approval from the insurance company.
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And: Food is not expensive.
Therefore, “99 percent of them are destroyed,” explains the accident commissioner and goes into detail: Perishable goods are lost anyway.
In the case of live animals, the official veterinarian decides whether they are killed or allowed to continue living.
When it comes to food, play it safe.
It is particularly important to pay close attention to hygiene when it comes to trucks that have been involved in an accident.
It could be that the goods came into contact with toxic substances or leaked operating materials such as oil or gasoline.
Sellmayer therefore asks: “Who takes responsibility” in the event of further use?
Just imagine if damaged food went to the food bank and something happened to a consumer while eating it.