Accident with moped

Accidental death of Tobias (15) shocks his classmates

The pupil had an accident on his new moped (symbolic image)

(Bild: Pressefoto Scharinger © Daniel Scharinger)

It is the kind of tragic story that needs to be written far too often: A 15-year-old boy crashed his "Gatschhupfer" head-on into a car. He died in hospital a week later. In Peuerbach, the shock is enormous, both among his classmates and his fellow firefighters.

"It's a huge blow for the classmates, but also for me as the leader and all the teachers. The crisis intervention team was with us on Monday and now on Thursday. Someone is also coming to our class forum," says Josef Wagner, principal of Peuerbach Sports Middle School, where Tobias (15) attended fourth grade. He had repeated the third grade.