Overview
- The 58-year-old left a rail construction site in the Oberpfalz to refuel nine kilometers away at Bahnhof Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg.
- A destination mix-up in his navigation device sent him instead to Neukirchen beim Heiligen Blut, roughly 116 kilometers into the Bavarian Forest.
- Colleagues, unable to reach him and aware of his diabetes, halted work and reported him missing after he failed to return.
- Police used mobile-phone localization to identify a last signal near Bad Kötzting while coworkers searched local routes.
- About five hours after departing, he returned healthy to the site, and police said the case involved no crime as his phone battery had discharged.