Kevin Lotscher | |
Team: | EHC Biel |
League: | NLA |
Birth Place: | Visp, Switzerland |
Ntl Team: | Switzerland |
Position: | Forward |
Birth Date: | 1988 2, mf=yes |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 3 |
Weight Lb: | 201 |
Shoots: | Right |
Draft: | Undrafted |
Career Start: | 2005 |
Kevin Lotscher (born February 17, 1988) is a Swiss former professional ice hockey player who last played for EHC Biel in Switzerland's National League A.
He is participating at the 2011 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Switzerland men's national ice hockey team.
In the early hours of May 14, 2011, Kevin Lotscher was involved in a traffic accident in the Swiss town of Sierre, and suffered life-threatening head injuries. Police have reported that Lotscher was walking on the side of the road around 4:30 a.m. when he was hit head-on by a drunk driver.[1] The driver of the car, a 19-year-old woman, tested positive for alcohol and was detained by police.[2] This would eventually end his professional hockey career.