Niklas Frohnert was driving a KIKU-lorry with 25 tons of Bodensee-Fruits
Brave and courageous
“Behind me two cars approached at high speed and I was afraid that they would possibly crash with the oncoming car,” Niklas Frohnert explains. Brave and courageously he tried to prevent the accident. While tooting the horn he moved his lorry onto both lanes, switched on the hazard warning lights and decreased steadily his pace. Then he drove his lorry across the carriageway and stoped in the middle of the road.
A few centimetres before collision
The oncoming driver slowed down as well. The car stoped 20 centimetres in front of Frohnerts lorry. Behind the steering wheel was a woman, “She grumbled, screamed and gestured and seemed absolutely furious”, Niklas Frohnert recalls. Then suddenly, the woman turned her Ford and headed towards Stuttgart. “I followed her and alerted the police,” Frohnert explains. At the exit Böblingen-Hulb two police cars were able to stop the female driver.
“He did everything right and probably prevented a tragedy.”
Behind the steering wheel: A 58-year-old woman that seemed to be very confused. “The police suspect that the woman may have had taken pills and had even suicidal intentions,” Frohnert said. For now, the woman has lost her driving license and is getting help in an asylum. Police officer and spokesman Peter Widenhorn is full of praise for the young driver: “Compliments to the lorry driver. He did everything right and probably prevented a tragedy.” Despite the sudden fame and the new image of a hero, the young man remains quite humble: “Everyone says that I am a hero but I have not thought that much about it. I had to react quick to prevent a worse accident happeneing. I was glad that the road had hardly any traffic and that the two cars behind me had realized what I wanted to do.”
For more information: newspaper-article (German)