Nothing worked yesterday morning – at least on the B1 between Hörsching and Traun and on the Wolferner Landesstraße between Niederneukirchen and St. Florian. In the dense fog, several vehicles crashed into each other on the icy road in both Traun and Sankt Florian. Long traffic jams and delays in morning traffic were the result.
16 vehicles were involved in the accident on the B1. First, ten vehicles collided that were heading towards Wels. The car of a 21-year-old was thrown onto the opposite lane.
This triggered the collision of six other vehicles heading towards Linz. Several cars jammed into each other, two were thrown onto the lane divider, where they stopped.
The route between the old and new Trauner crossings was closed for four hours until the towing services had taken all the damaged cars off the road and the police had completed their survey work. “Fortunately, the pile-up went smoothly. The 16 vehicles involved in the accident were severely damaged in some cases, but the drivers were not trapped, so we were soon able to move in again,” says Thomas Andexlinger from the Traun volunteer fire brigade. According to the police, the exact course of the accident is currently being determined.
Those drivers who were traveling on the Wolferner Landesstraße between Niederneukirchen and Sankt Florian were also stuck in traffic for hours yesterday morning. Here, too, there was a rear-end collision involving six vehicles due to the heavy morning fog.
The volunteer fire brigades in St. Florian and Rohrbach initially had difficulties locating the scene of the accident. “The accident detectors didn’t know where they were because of the fog,” says operations manager Martin Baier from the FF Sankt Florian. “The cars were standing all over the place, we first had to recover the accident vehicles in order to even clear a lane.” Some trucks also got stuck on the icy road and blocked early traffic.
The fire brigade was on duty with 15 men for about two hours. One injured person was taken to the hospital for further examinations.
Source: Nachrichten
