Due to the difficult conditions, there were several serious accidents on Upper Austria’s roads at the weekend. A 53-year-old from Andorf died in an accident in Zell an der Pram (Schärding district) on Saturday. The woman was traveling on the Innviertler Bundesstraße at around 6.20 a.m. when she slipped her Fiat Punto on the snowy road and collided sideways with the oncoming car of a 35-year-old from St. Roman. The 53-year-old’s car fell over a two-meter-deep embankment and came to a standstill in a meadow.
“The car wreck didn’t look that bad at first. We only realized after a few minutes that it was so tragic,” says Commander Johannes Hellwagner of the Zell an der Pram volunteer fire brigade. When the fire brigade arrived, Red Cross employees had already taken the two injured people out of the vehicles and started to provide them with medical care. The rescue workers tried to revive the accident victim. “Then the emergency doctor came, but he could only determine the woman’s death,” says Hellwagner.
The car of a 22-year-old Hungarian overturned around 2 a.m. on Sunday in the municipality of Weyer (district of Steyr-Land). He was on the B115 in the direction of Großraming when he left the lane on the right and drove onto the guardrail that started there. The vehicle overturned and landed on its roof. The 22-year-old was slightly injured, according to the Alkotest he had 1.45 per thousand alcohol in his blood at the time of the accident.
Also drunk was a 24-year-old who crashed his car into a chapel around 8 p.m. on Saturday. He was on a dirt road in the Aigen percussion (district Rohrbach) on the road when he should have slipped on the snow-covered road. The vehicle slid into the chapel next to the road. The driver suffered minor injuries. His three passengers aged 17, 22 and 25 were released from the Rohrbach hospital after outpatient treatment. A breathalyser test on the 24-year-old driver revealed a blood alcohol level of 1.18.
A 41-year-old Croatian who lives in Germany was killed in a rear-end collision on Friday A9 seriously injured. The 41-year-old was driving behind an articulated lorry and may have overlooked the fact that it stopped because of a traffic jam in the Falkenstein tunnel. The 41-year-old was unable to brake in time and hit the back of the semitrailer.
He was trapped and seriously injured. He was taken to the Wels-Grieskirchen clinic by emergency helicopter. His 39-year-old wife, who was riding in the passenger seat, came to the hospital in Kirchdorf with minor injuries. The truck driver was not injured. (vaba)
Source: Nachrichten
