For those who can't read German (myself included), here's a translation of the newspaper article (thanks to my partner Jean for this! :d ). It looks like these two were very lucky to escape from the accident with their lives:-
Head of Wolfsburg Museum seriously injured at rally
Collision with a valuable VW vintage cabrioHorst Beilharz (62), head of the Wolfsburg VW museum, has sustained a serious injury at a vintage rally in the Austrian town of Voralberg.
WOLFSBURG. “I must have had a guardian angel watching over me”, said a heavily-bandaged Horst Beilharz, speaking from his hospital bed in the town of Feldkirch. Despite a broken left hip, a shattered kneecap, deep stitches in his face and two missing teeth, Beilharz remains optimistic: “I think I’ll be fit to go back to Wolfsburg in around ten days in a wheelchair”. With a new hip…
Together with his co-driver, Lufthansa boss Uwe Mueller (46), Beilharz was taking part in the Silvretta Classic rally. He was driving a 1951 Dannenhauer & Stauss cabriolet, borrowed for the occasion from the Wolfsburg museum.
The accident occurred in the village of Schnepfau, when the driver of a Ford Transit failed to give way to the rally duo and Beilharz, at the wheel of the rare vintage vehicle, collided head on with the delivery van. The Transit driver escaped unhurt but Beilharz and Mueller were rushed to hospital by helicopter. The co-driver came off even worse. Beilharz explains, "He will suffer from the broken bones he sustained for some time to come".
The D & S was a complete write-off. The museum head stated: “We aim to restore this rare vehicle, one of just twelve examples of its kind”. But not for a rally…
The photo captions read:-
Complete write-off: The Dannenhauer & Stauss after the accident in Voralberg.and
Before: the cabrio in the museum.Dave
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