The idea has to come first: As a car slides on the highway , scrambling along the guardrail for several hundred meters, the driver is obviously no longer conscious. "For me it was clear that there was no alternative but to slow it down," says Manfred Kick. So the 41-year-old has briefly given gas with his Tesla, has placed himself in front of the VW Passat, let him drive up and so brought to a halt. He has probably saved the life of the 57- year-old driver in this spectacular way . On Tuesday, however, Kick tells this story so calmly and calmly, as if he had borrowed a pavement to a passer-by in the subway.
On Monday at 5:50 pm, Kick was traveling on the A 9 towards Nuremberg, shortly before the exit Garching south over the Passat in front of him, which was relatively slow on the left lane. Some carriages overtook, the drivers cursed. Kick also accelerated on the right to the same height of the car and wanted to give the driver to understand that he should go right if he had problems with his car. "But then I saw that the driver's body hung lifelessly in the belt, his head and arms hanging limply." To avoid an accident with other vehicles and to help the driver, Kick quickly and braked the vehicle. It was gently raking, but the damage to both cars is limited.
Manfred Kick opened the passenger door and stabilized the patient, who breathed heavily and could not be approached. A woman and a third driver also stopped, they alerted rescue workers and secured the accident site. The 57-year-old had suffered a circulatory collapse in the first evidence, and there was another man at the car phone who also informed the emergency physician. "We've worked very well together," says Kick.
This sentence honors the 41-year-old, who is sitting in Garching for the CSU in the city council. It is also a slight understatement, because you can say: Manfred Kick was the right man in the right place. The company of the metal builder manufactures guard rails for test purposes, he has also designed cars that push other cars. In short, "I already knew what I was doing," he says. Obendrein, he recently made a rescue exam, with detailed first aid training.
The 57-year-old is doing well so far. Kick has not thought about the damage to his Tesla: "I was sausage," he says. The good news for the rescuer from the motorway: On the SZ inquiry, the whole association of the German insurance company declared that the insurance companies of the collapsed VW driver had to pay the costs, if a so-called "sacrifice" was present. And so you can definitely call the help on the A 9 of Monday evening.
