A small car crashes into the tram on Mainzer Landstrasse. The driver and her two children are seriously injured. Witnesses help, especially one who intervenes courageously.
Two small children and their mother were seriously injured on Friday afternoon, February 5, on Mainzer Landstrasse when their Opel Corsa collided with a tram on line 11 in the direction of Fechenheim. Eyewitnesses were immediately on hand to help. A construction worker even stopped the rolling cart, otherwise worse could have happened. The route of trams 11, 21 and 14 was closed for more than three hours.
Interior designer Pawel Swiacki will not soon forget the moment of the accident at around 2:10 p.m. “The car wanted to leave Krifteler Strasse, hit the tram, was thrown around several times, hit a parked car rental company and rolled back onto the street. The driver’s door was completely pushed in. If the construction worker hadn’t turned the steering wheel so quickly from outside grabbed and stopped the rolling cart by hand, a lot more would have happened. ” An employee of an e-cigarette shop nods. He heard the bang and saw how the car rolled on, apparently without a driver. “The woman lay across the passenger seat and the construction worker was already at the car and steered it.” The horror is also written on his face. The two and other passers-by immediately got the two toddlers and their mother out of the car, the police, fire brigade and rescue workers were on site with a large number within minutes. “We immediately brought water and kitchen towels out of the woman who was conscious again. All three were no longer in the car when the fire department came. Rescue workers took the small children and took them to ambulances,” said the eyewitness. “The mother screamed that she wanted to see her children.” The employee at the e-cigarette store reassured her. “As bad as it looked, it was great how everyone reacted immediately. Nobody glared, everyone helped where possible.”
The driver’s door of the Opel Corsa is pushed in as far as the middle of the driver’s seat. There’s blood on the door. The left front of the tram is damaged. Around the scene of the accident there are small parts from vehicles that the runaway vehicle hit.
“The man from the construction site is a hero,” the two witnesses agree. “He held the car alone.” In front of scaffolding on the building at the scene of the accident, the hero looks up and smiles. He doesn’t want to give his name. “That dictates decency,” he says. “I only stopped the car a bit. There were children in it, and I think they were very lucky in the misfortune. To help is a matter of honor.” He had also observed that the woman wanted to cross Mainzer Landstrasse from Krifteler Strasse.
The scene of the accident is cordoned off over a large area, with police, fire engines and ambulances everywhere. The passengers and the driver of the tram got away with the horror. The police do not comment at the scene of the accident and are investigating. The officers mark all the places where cars were hit by the Corsa. The injured are in the hospital. At 5:21 p.m. the route for tram lines 11, 21 and 14 was released again.
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