Gaffer block Rettungskräshops regelmäßig the way and make unauthorized pictures of Unfäcases. Whether new, tougher laws will help, remains questionable
Schäbiggest curiosity: If you are hampered by the Gaffer, come RettungskräRTD may spät
November 2017. A truck fährt on the A3 in North Rhine-Westphalia, in a traffic jam. A Car is pushed by a tractor-trailer and the other four vehicles wedged, two people die. An accident, not only horror, but also of curiosity: On the Gegenroadway to slow down drivers your pace, a number of films, the RettungskräRTD with the phone. However, these films zurück: 92 onlookers köthe officials can später to identify.
So far, Gawk is punished rarely
So far, Gaffer often get away with it. 2.6 Million Verkehrsunfälle, there were 2017 in Germany, around 390 000 were injured people. Although firefighters, Sanitä complain;ter, and the police repeatedly, that the obstruction by onlookers. However, current Figures are missing. According to an investigation by the Federal für Straßenwesen (BASt) Unfäcases, up to 26 innocent bystanders present at mass more than 100 Billiards. However, the Figures are almost 30 years old.
Stefan Pfeiffer, head of the traffic police inspection in mittelfränkischen Moist and a member of the German police Union, weiß however, from my own experience that Gaffer are the rule rather than the exception. "In Unfäcases on the highway we experience is almost always that other drivers slow down to look or with the mobile phone the location to the movies." This gefäyou may be infected themselves and others. Unfälle on the opposite lane.
Smartphones verschämay the Problem
From the point of view of psychology, the Lust, the Look is human, schließlich curiosity inherent in all of us. In The Straßtraffic is, however, says quickly to a Problem, the Traffic psychologist of the ADAC, Nina delusion: "If the greed of curiosity überhand can eingeschä the Situation more aware of;be protected." A Gefühl für appropriate behavior was no longer present.
Smartphones and social media have not created the Problem, but verschärft. The ­ is;Policy üassured. "Gaffer take Photos and Videos on, to the Geschichtenerzäcounter to köcan – at the expense and to the detriment of the Opfer", a spokesman for the interior Ministry in North Rhine-says-Westphalia.
Draft law against the Hinder of Rettungseinsäsupport
To help the helpers, were several Gesetzesächanges decided. About a Reform of the so-called Samaritan clause, the denial of assistance, under penalty. After that, a penalty to prevent an accident with others, to help &ndash now threatens also to those; for example, car drivers that do not form a rescue lane.
Targeted against Gawker is another bill that was brought in this year. He is to sacrifice the Photography and filming of death in Unfäcases under the act. Up to two years Gefäprison or fines köcould in the future to the person threatened, the recordings of Verunglüswallowed or tried to. The new rules stößt on approval. So far Gaffer could only dafür to be prosecuted, that you can use at the controls of your mobile phone. "Since we currently have a Gesetzeslücke", bestäthe ADAC-the chief lawyer Dr. Markus Schä needed;pe. "The new law hätte as well as a signal."
Whether the new regulations gewüyou want effective, it must be seen, however. A consistent implementation requires more staff. "In the case of a serious accident, it is in order to rescue and salvage – as you can ­ not always;someone off to person alien aufzunehmen", police officer Pfeiffer says.
The counter-reactions of the rescuers
Some rescuers make their displeasure in the social media air. Two years ago, when onlookers in the city of Hagen phone pictures of a seriously injured Mägirl made, wrote the zustäfull police on Facebook: "Schämt you, your Gaffer from the main train station!" And: "We do use real what is Better than us you küinhibitors. Let zuküin the future, the Smartphones in the pocket and goes on easy."
Of broad-based Information, many of the rescue and Einsatzkrä promise;RTD achievements. "From our point of view, the awareness-raising and Aufklä comes;the Öpublic a große role zu", about Leander Strate, Department of Director of emergency service at the Johanniter-accident-says-help. Campaigns such as "Help instead of gaffen" to contribute to this. The Volunteer Fire Department Osnabrück turned together with two young filmmakers a verstögenerating Spot on the subject of curiosity and Gawking, which was viewed on the Internet millions of times.
Schutzwände against the voyeurism
Some Bundesläto use in a point of view of protection or so-called "Gaffer-Wände", to Unfälle für look funny unto make it interesting. In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, nearly two metres high and up to 100-metre-long designs are already in service for three years. With success: According to the motorway maintenance depots, the number of the curiosity caused Auffahrunfä went;lle significantly zurück. In Brandenburg or Bavaria Curious to be thus held apart.
The Schutzwänd themselves at the scene of the accident, a lot of glances, brought the Volunteer fire Department from Wunstorf in lower Saxony, an idea. You printed a view protection plane with a simple appeal, but in the meantime, many fire brigades in Germany have copied this. "Do not gawk! To become a member!"
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