A mistake while turning cost Christian S his life last week. A driver (82) overlooked the 21-year-old, he could no longer avoid the car and died on the spot. It now appears that the accident should not have happened at all. Because: The senior no longer had a driver’s license.
“The dismay is still great,” Josef Leimer, mayor of Helpfau-Uttendorf, searches for the right words after the death of Christian S.. The 21-year-old’s funeral took place on Wednesday with great sympathy. The motorcyclist had been taken away out of the blue exactly a week earlier in the neighboring municipality of Geretsberg. He was driving with two friends Wednesday evening when an 82-year-old driver overlooked him as he turned left.
Thrown to another car
Christian S. crashed head-on into the passenger side of the red Opel, was thrown onto another vehicle and then into the ditch. The shocked friends had to watch as the first responders lost the battle for the young life. It has now become known that the terrible accident should not have happened at all. The driver of the accident had not had a driver’s license for a long time, which was confirmed by the police following a ‘Krone’ request.
Adult representative was rejected
It is rumored that the decline occurred due to dementia and mental confusion. “We do not provide information about ongoing procedures,” is the only statement from the responsible Braunau district administration. But the 82-year-old was also no stranger to his home community.
“We have tried for a long time to provide the man with a legal adult representative. There are no more immediate family members,” explains the mayor of the Innviertel community in an interview with the “Krone”. However, that failed at the time because the man was considered healthy.
I found a house, but didn’t want to stay
That’s why the community didn’t get any help when it found a place in a senior facility in the spring, but he didn’t want to stay there. “Forced confinement is not possible. We couldn’t keep him there. “In conversations with neighbors and relatives, we thought that everything would be fine when he returned home,” the mayor reports. The man also received regular care from mobile care.
The mayor did not know that the 82-year-old no longer had a driver’s license. He saw him repeatedly driving around in the car, for example to do some shopping at the supermarket. “I don’t blame myself, we tried everything. The outcome is obviously very tragic,” said the local boss.
Source: Krone
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