The emergency services also had to move out to three traffic accidents: In the Lavant valley, there was a frontal collision in which a woman was injured. On the Mölltal Bundesstraße (B106) around 10 a.m. a car collided with a bus, in Klagenfurt a bus hit a snow plow, causing only material damage.
In the accident in Mölltal, a 52-year-old from Klagenfurt was driving his car when he lost control of his vehicle on the snow-covered lane, skidded into the opposite lane and hit an oncoming bus with his right side. He, his 77-year-old passenger and the 41-year-old driver of the bus were injured. The only passenger on the bus, a 40-year-old man, was unharmed. The three injured were brought to the Spittal an der Drau hospital. The car was totaled, the bus was damaged.
Linzerin injured in an accident
Also on Sunday morning, a 22-year-old drove his car on Obdacher Bundesstrasse (B78) coming from Bad St. Leonhard in the direction of Twimberg. In a right-hand bend he skidded on the slippery road, hit the opposite lane and crashed head-on into the oncoming car of a 53-year-old woman from Linz. The woman was taken to the Wolfsberg State Hospital, and both vehicles were total write-offs.
The fitters from the Carinthian energy supplier Kelag were also on duty on Sunday, due to the snowfall, there were repeated power outages, for example in Lavanttal (Wolfsberg district), Görtschitztal and Gurktal (St. Veit an der Glan district). Chains were compulsory on most of the higher roads. It was expected that the snowfall would subside by the evening.
Source: Nachrichten
