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Jakob (11) was lying on the ground, but the driver kept going
Jakob (11) suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta. The boy fell on a street in Leonding (Upper Austria) on Monday because a large car suddenly sped up and honked instead of braking. The elderly driver did not stop but simply drove away. The 11-year-old suffered a severe bruise and cannot get up.
“It would be a glaring injustice if the driver got away with this. I can’t imagine what kind of person sees a child lying on the street and yells at him instead of helping.” Daniel Schaub still can’t believe what happened on Monday evening in Leonding. His 11-year-old son Jakob was out walking with a friend around six o’clock when he crossed Michaelsbergstraße (Leonding).
Car honked instead of braking
Suddenly, a car came racing up, and the driver—instead of braking—honked the horn. “Jakob, like me, has brittle bone disease. He’s just been recovering and had only recently started walking without crutches again. He can break a bone if he steps too hard, so he has to walk carefully and slowly, and that’s exactly what he does,” says the worried father.
He can break a bone if he steps too hard, so he has to walk carefully and slowly, and that’s exactly what he does.
Der Papa über Jakobs Krankheit
No fracture, but a severe bruise
The fact that the driver also honked his horn stressed the 11-year-old so much that he fell onto the road. “Then the driver scolded the two boys and drove off instead of helping,” says the Linz resident, horrified. The children called their mother; Jakob had to go to the hospital because of severe leg pain. “Luckily, nothing is broken, but it’s badly bruised. Now he can’t get up,” said the father.
Children were shocked
He would like to hold the reckless driver accountable, but that’s difficult: “It was a shock for the children. All they can say is that it was an older man in a large car or minivan. There are no cameras there,” the father laments.
Because of his condition, Jakob is small in stature and looks younger than he is. How could anyone speed toward such a small child?
Die verzweifelte Mutter
No one else helped
The mother wanted to file a complaint against an unknown person as early as Tuesday. “If something else had happened, Jakob would have told me—he knows I wouldn’t be mad at him. Both boys were in such shock. Jakob’s friend helped him onto a bench because he couldn’t get up on his own, and no one else helped,” reported mother Christina as well. “Because of his illness, Jakob is small in stature and looks younger than his age. How could anyone run into such a small child? He already has a hard enough time—how is he supposed to deal with this?” asks Schaub, requesting information at 0676/945 8559.
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