After crossing the Danube: Escaped calf shot in Lower Austria

At around 9 a.m., the calf was driven out into the pasture with other animals by a 48-year-old farmer from Saxen before it fled. It ran across country, over the B3 and the tracks of the Donauuferbahn, then it swam through the Danube to Lower Austria.

The calf landed on the premises of a company in Ardagger (district of Amstetten) and ran through an underpass of the B119 into the quarry there. Since the site borders directly on the roadway of the B119, the animal had to be shot there by the owner because of imminent danger. According to the vet, an anesthetic would only have worked after about 30 minutes.