She was airlifted from the scene and taken to a hospital, having suffered a broken hip and broken arm along with the head injuries. Edebal, who is 6-2, wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was crushed in the back seat. His head hit the truck's diesel tank and he died instantly. Petrovic, who was sleeping, flew out of the front window. Szalantzy's attempt to turn away from the truck left Petrovic most vulnerable on impact.
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According to the police, the truck driver got out of his vehicle to try to warn oncoming traffic. but only enough to recall one characteristic: "He was very nice."Īt approximately 5:20 p.m., they encountered a truck that had crashed through the guard rails and was blocking all lanes of traffic.
She knew Petrovic through Szalantzy - and says she attended some of his basketball games in the U.S. On their way back, Edebal sat behind the couple in the backseat. "I'll talk to you when I get back to Zagreb (in Croatia)," Petrovic told Goyak over the phone before getting in the car. A long-distance relationship afforded them little togetherness. According to his lawyer, Nicholas Goyak, Petrovic decided against flying to Croatia with the rest of his teammates because he was eager to see his girlfriend. They picked up Petrovic, who had arrived with the Croatian national team following a European Championships qualifying game in Poland. I thought if I jumped I could stop dreaming."Įdebal was a victim, too, on that rain-soaked night in Ingolstadt, Germany, where Petrovic's girlfriend, Hungarian model Klara Szalantzy, was behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Golf when it skidded into a truck.Įdebal took the trip as a favor to Szalantzy, a longtime friend and former basketball teammate, who wanted company for the 250-mile trek from Munich to the airport in Frankfurt. "I just wanted to wake up because I was dreaming. She also has questions, lots of them: Why would Petrovic, a man of NBA wealth, ask for a car ride to Munich instead of catching a plane? Why was she even in Germany while enrolled in college in the United States? Why did she lose her career and Petrovic lose his life, while the driver of the car soon returned to basketball and modeling? And Edebal's most destructive thought: Might she have been better off suffering the same fate as Petrovic? What remains for the 41-year-old woman are huge gaps of empty space, mental lapses and problems maintaining a job. She only recently recognized it was the same car crash that killed Drazen Petrovic and devastated two basketball communities - one in Croatia, the other in New Jersey. As with a lot of incidences and acquaintances since the accident, she can't recall anything about the day her neurons shifted and her former life was snatched away. There is an imperative episode missing from Hilal Edebal's brain, unremembered over 18 years of haze.
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