Cabrio driver convicted: Students seriously injured on school trip!

Cabrio driver convicted: Students seriously injured on school trip!

Prora, Deutschland - How quickly life can change demonstrates the incident, which took place on August 14, 2022 on the picturesque island of Rügen. A 13-year-old student was seriously injured during a school trip in Prora when he was supposedly approached by a convertible driver. Laut Angaben der Zevener Zeitung wurde der Fahrer, ein 47-jähriger Unternehmer, kürzlich vor Gericht verurteilt.

The turmoil began when the group of seven students was traveling around 9 p.m. and the boy provocatively insulted the driver of the convertible with the middle finger. What was thought like a harmless joke ended in a tragedy. The driver turned his vehicle and raced to the boy at increased speed. "I couldn't dodge in time," said the accused. According to Buten un within the boy was thrown several meters through the air before he landed on a lawn.

The consequences of the incident

The student suffered a traumatic brain trauma, abdominal trauma and several wounds. Fortunately, he was able to return to the youth hostel independently, where his friends quickly alerted an emergency doctor. He was finally flown to the Greifswald Clinic with a helicopter and has now left the hospital.

The reactions of the classmates were immediately. Since they had no cell phones with them, they carried the seriously injured boy into the youth hostel, where they got help. The entire class is in shock and receives psychological care after being witnesses of such trauma.

court proceedings and conviction

The driver was finally fined 12,000 euros due to negligent bodily harm and driver flight. The presiding judge Harald Nolte found that the man had done everything wrong that could be done as a driver, but did not intend to damage the boy. The accused's driver's license remains closed for one and a half years, while the public prosecutor's office had asked for a prison for two years.

Surprisingly, the driver had hidden the convertible, a silver-colored BMW convertible E46, a few weeks after the incident, which he did according to his lawyer. This vehicle was then secured on September 5, 2022 during a house search.

social discussion about youth crime

These dramatic events also have a light on the current Situation regarding youth crime in Germany. In 2024, this reached a maximum with around 13,800 cases, more than twice as high as in 2016, according to an analysis of the Statista. Humans are known for the fact that he often makes mischievous decisions in difficult situations - an explanation that could also apply to the behavior of the driver and possibly to the provocations of the student.

The question remains how to encounter the increasing youth violence. Debates about tougher sanctions in youth criminal law take place again and again, while the call for stronger prevention measures will also become louder in order to avoid such incidents in the future. In this context, it is crucial to respond to children and adolescents in order to recognize and act possible abnormalities at an early stage.