Nine injured in accident with coaches in Lower Austria

Nine people were injured, one of them seriously, as the district fire brigade command Mödling announced on Thursday. So far, the cause of the rear-end collision is still unclear. At the time of the collision, both buses were occupied by 60 people. The Laxenburg volunteer fire brigade was alerted shortly after 6 p.m. The injured were given first aid by the fire and rescue services. However, the seriously injured person could not get off the bus from the upper floor himself. It also could not be carried down the narrow stairs inside the vehicle. For this reason, a special rescue platform was positioned and an access opening was created using hydraulic rescue equipment. The person was then transferred to a spineboard and lifted off the bus.

With the help of a crane vehicle from the Lower Austrian fire brigade association, stationed at the Mödling fire brigade, the buses involved in the accident were safely parked off the roadway in an adjacent parking lot. Nine vehicles and 36 emergency services from two fire departments were deployed. The ambulance service and the police were also on duty.

There had already been a serious bus accident in early August. 18 people were injured in the accident on the German Autobahn 2 near Peine, east of Hanover. On the way from Linz to Norway, the coach went off the road and overturned.