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Motorcycle accident, rope assassination attempt

Rope assassination: an accident and its history
“No public interest”

A farmer stretches a rope across the street for his cows. A motorcyclist does not see this, falls and injures himself. And a public prosecutor apparently finds this quite normal and legal.

Michael Schumann

08/17/2017

It happened on a hot summer Sunday. Peter Valerius was on his way home with his blue Suzuki Bandit 600. He was visiting a friend. The two had talked about their shared hobby of model building. It is around 5 p.m. when Peter Valerius drives on Kreisstrabe 84 in the direction of his hometown Meudt not far from Montabaur in the Westerwald. His wife Lilly is waiting for him at home. On the road, the Suzuki driver comes across a tractor, otherwise there is hardly any traffic this afternoon in the northern province of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Tempo 100 allowed

The first Meudt houses can already be seen when the Suzuki driver notices a dark blue Golf on the side of the road. He is on the left in a slight bend, half in the meadow, half on the road. The hazard lights are on. There is a warning triangle on the right-hand side of the road, where a dirt road joins. Tempo 100 is allowed on the county road, which slopes slightly towards Meudt, but is practically impossible due to the narrow, somewhat bumpy road. Valerius takes the gas off, rolls towards the bend at an estimated 60 to 70 km / h. He assumes the Golf has broken down. One of Valerius’ neighbors comes out of the meadow towards the car and seems to say hello. Which even confirms Peter Valerius in his belief in a breakdown in the VW. But he doesn’t see any reason to stop. Why also?

“I was still lucky”

But suddenly there is a bang. The Suzuki wedges like a rodeo bull, Peter Valerius is thrown off. The then 49-year-old falls with the left side of his body on the asphalt and slides into the ditch. His hand is grazed and a ligament is torn in his left knee. “I was lucky,” he says today. “Now that I know what really happened here, I realize that I could have been dead.” What really happened that Sunday was that Peter Valerius’ Suzuki fell from a wire fence about 90 centimeters high across the street had been ripped off the wheels. A farmer from the same place as Valerius, together with his brother, had stretched two of the tear-resistant ribbons that are supposed to keep cows in the pasture across the county road. Between the two belts he wanted to drive his cattle to the pasture on the other side of the road. The only safeguard of the planned cattle drive: the hazard warning lights on the VW Golf and the warning triangle.


Motorcycle accident, rope assassination attempt


Michael Schumann

Peter Valerius today with his new bandit. The old one was a total write.

The farmer and his brother then reported this to the police, who recorded the accident. The testimony goes on to say: “When Mr. Valerius approached with the motorcycle, it had not occurred to him (the farmer, editor) at first to loosen the cord stretched across the street. However, he would have tried to draw Mr. Valerius’ attention to the danger area by waving his arm accordingly “- it was the neighbor waving next to the car. And Valerius ’luck was that the braid hit the motorcycle fairing and not his upper body or even his neck.

Wrongly assessed the situation?

Peter Valerius ’bad luck, however, was that he was still at the scene of the accident – injured and certainly also in shock – told the police that he had” misjudged the situation on site, “as the interrogation protocol says. Because he hadn’t seen any cows anywhere, and certainly not the tensioned fence strands. So why stop? For the Koblenz public prosecutor’s office, this recorded “incorrect assessment” was apparently reason enough to discontinue the investigation against the farmer for dangerous interference in road traffic less than six months after the accident. The remarkable reason for this: “The motorcyclist’s fault is outweighed considerably.” And there is no “public interest in criminal prosecution”. A request made by MOTORRAD for an explanation of this in itself inexplicable decision could not be complied with by the Koblenz public prosecutor “promptly and reliably”.

“A sign has to be set”

For Peter Valerius, this means “that the farmer can continue to stretch something across the road.” But the former truck driver cannot and will not come to terms with this even today, two years after the accident. “I drove trucks all over Europe for 19 years. But I’ve never seen anything like it. ”Peter Valerius sees the farmer in the 1,700-strong community of Meuth“ probably every other day ”, a situation that is stressful . “I have nothing against him personally. But a sign must be set that something like this cannot simply be done! Even a farmer has to know what he is doing. ”The deadline for an objection to the decision of the Koblenz public prosecutor has long expired. A civil action for damages and compensation for pain and suffering is still pending. In addition to the physical damage – two years after the accident, Peter Valerius still has pain in his left knee – the Suzuki Bandit was just junk after the crash.

“Anyone who compromises the safety of road traffic by 1. destroying, damaging or removing systems or vehicles, 2. creating obstacles or 3. carrying out a similar, equally dangerous intervention, and thereby the life or limb of another person or important things that are strange The value at risk is punished with imprisonment for up to five years or with a fine. “

From § 315b StGB, negligence is also punishable here.

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