Kevin Lotscher Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Swiss hockey player Lotscher struck by car . www.tsn.ca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020055500/http://www.tsn.ca/canadian_hockey/story/?id=365716 . 2012-10-20.
  2. Web site: Plongé dans un coma artificiel - News sports - le Nouvelliste On-line . www.lenouvelliste.ch . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111005012814/http://www.lenouvelliste.ch/fr/news/sports/detail.php?idIndex=12&idContent=275177 . 2011-10-05.