Still Requiring Care: Injured Thuringian Individual - Fresh insights into the terrifying incident preceding the 2014 World Cup
The triumph over Argentina in the World Cup final and the legendary 7:1 victory over Brazil in the semi-final bring back cherished memories for all Germans who love football. However, there is a dark memory from our 2014 World Cup title that seems to be overlooked.
A new ARD documentary called "Wir Weltmeister. Abenteuer Fußball-WM 2014" sheds light on this long-forgotten incident ten years after our World Cup victory. During the German team's preparations in South Tyrol, a horrific accident left a World Cup hero traumatized.
A marshal sustained minor injuries, but a tourist from Thuringia suffered such severe injuries that, according to ARD, he remains in need of care to this day.
The accident took place on May 27, 2014. National team player Benedikt Höwedes (36) was a passenger in DTM driver Pascal Wehrlein's (29) car at a Mercedes sponsorship event in St. Leonhard, Italy. Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg (38) was driving in front of them on the closed-off track near the DFB training camp.
The Horrific Accident Leading to the 2014 World Cup Win
Höwedes remembers in the first episode of the documentary, "We only saw the car ahead. There were two people standing in front of the barrier, who were apparently signaling for an autograph or something. In any case, Rosberg couldn't tell. He made an emergency stop. And Wehrlein had to react quickly."
Wehrlein, who was only 19 at the time, couldn't prevent the disaster.
Höwedes recalls, "We hit one of them a little on the back. The other one hit the windshield right in front of me."
Höwedes adds, "He rolls over several times. Lying on the ground bleeding. People start screaming. I was in complete shock. I stumble out of the car. Kneel down somehow. Tried to process the situation somehow." Höwedes remained uninjured and helped carry the seriously injured man to the rescue helicopter a few minutes later.
The Bolzano police investigated the accident, but there were no legal consequences. Dr. Axel Bisignano from the public prosecutor's office in Bolzano/South Tyrol states in the ARD documentary, "There was no determination of guilt. The proceedings were discontinued. Because the victim didn't file a criminal complaint. The accident victim should have demanded that proceedings be initiated against the person who caused the accident. That didn't happen. Because he probably received appropriate compensation in Germany. From Mercedes."
According to the documentary, Mercedes made a one-off payment of an unknown amount to the accident victim.
The accident in 2014 - just a few weeks before the World Cup victory - still haunts Höwedes, "I kept thinking about the moment when the man smashed into my windshield. I'm still chewing it over. For example, because I still have trouble sitting in the car as a passenger. It's a complete disaster, even though I'm not at fault because I wasn't driving. But you still feel responsible for another person's life that can't go on living normally."
And the victim's fate, who was almost forgotten in the shadow of the World Cup triumph on July 13, 2014.
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Source: symclub.org
