Im Auto nicht naschen, sonst…

In Waipawa, Neuseeland, ist ein vollgeladener Milchlaster durch zwei Häuser gepflügt und letztlich in einem dritten zum Stehen gekommen. Abgesehen von dem Sachschaden ist die Sache zum Glück recht glimpflich abgelaufen – außer einem gebrochenem Bein und einer gebrochenen Nase gab es erstaunlicherweise keine ernsthaften Verletzungen. Die Bilder vom Ort des Geschehens (bei NZPA) sehen schon aus, als ob sie aus einem Actionfilm stammen würden, aber die näheren Umstände… sowas kann nur das Leben schreiben:

An out-of-control 43-tonne milk tanker (…) clipped the first house, damaging a bedroom, then ploughed through the middle of two neighbouring homes in a Hollywood-like demolition scene at Waipawa in Hawkes Bay.
No one was at home in the first two houses, but a 55-year-old man with a broken ankle was in the third home, watching television in his lounge.

Bruce Oliver was following the tanker in the 70km/h zone, and said there was no sign of braking before the accident. The driver later told Mr Oliver he had been choking on a lolly.
A Fonterra spokesman said the milk was transferred to another tanker. He understood that not a drop was spilt in the accident. The company is arranging accommodation for affected households.

(Auszüge aus dem New Zealand Herald)

Mr Ashman [in the third house] was in his favourite chair and about to run a bath when his Saturday evening took a turn for the surreal. He was relaxing with a book and taking the weight off his right heel, which he broke last February.
“My dog Zac took off, and I wondered why,” Mr Ashman said. “Then I heard it coming, a series of crashes. It kept getting closer and closer (…) Then I saw the truck in the window.”
“If I had two good legs, I might have taken off, but I just sat there. My eyes were open. I wasn’t going to let it sneak up on me.”

The truck took out the bedroom and bathroom walls as it ploughed through the hallway to the lounge and into his chair, shunting the seated Mr Ashman back about a metre into a cupboard against the wall, before coming to a rest beside a stunned Mr Ashman.
The impact of the truck broke the tibia and fibula of Mr Ashman’s left leg and exacerbated his already-sore heel.

The driver was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises. He was recovering at home yesterday. Mr Ashman was reunited with Zac and taken to Hawkes Bay Hospital, where he is recovering from surgery.

Mr Ashman is now planning a party to celebrate his continuing life.
And he holds no grudges towards the driver. “If you’re choking, you don’t have much control of your vehicle. I have no animosity. In fact, we’re going to get a Lotto ticket together.”

(Auszüge aus dem New Zealand Herald)

Danke an Roland für den Hinweis!

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