The then 55-year-old doctor crashed into a snow wall with a corner bobsleigh after initially not being able to cope with the larger version of the Zipfelbob. He sued the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn for initially 114,000 euros in damages.
From the judge's point of view, there was no evidence of a violation of the traffic safety obligation - neither by the operator of the toboggan run nor by the landlord of theZipfelracer, a larger version. of the well-known Zipflebob, the court said. The American, who weighs 130 kilos and is almost two meters tall, will not receive any financial compensation after the accident. He was on a European tour with his daughter, who was studying in the Netherlands, when he went to Germany as part of a tour and went to the ZugSpitze.