A mother has lost her husband, her pregnant daughter and her son-in-law after a tragic accident where one of them fell into a well and the other two died while trying to carry out a failed rescue. Josef Honeder, 54, was the first to be caught out after heading out to go mushroom picking and […]
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Worker killed by street roller
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A road worker was killed in an accident on a building site in Semriach near Graz, Austria. The 32-year-old worker from Slovakia was driving a street roller when fell down an embankment. Colleagues who heard his screams ran to his aid but he had been decapitated in the accident. The worker was supposed to have […]
Erwin Hameseder, head of the Raiffeisen-Holding Lower Austria-Vienna will have to pay himself for the damage of the car accident he caused with his Porsche 911 on 3 April. An expert report stated that there was a cause and effect relationship between tyres and the accident. The spokesperson of Raiffeisen Insurance told the Austria Press […]
A man from Styria, South-Eastern Austria, caused a deadly car accident in Zagreb, Croatia, last weekend. The 31-year-old man crashed into the car in front so that the trailer became loose. A 50-year-old Polish man died and the Styrian was charged. According to the Croatian police, the accident happened at the A1 traffic node Gospic […]
Masters Of Dirt: FMX driver Eigo Sato died
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The Japanese Freestyle Motocross driver Eigo Sato died a few days after his performance at the event “Masters of Dirt” in the Vienna City Hall. Although the details of his death have not been revealed, unofficial reports state that Mr Sato had an accident when attempting a backflip on his motorbike. He is said to […]
The Dutch Royal family have said they will continue to have their winter holiday in Lech in Austria despite the accident that left Prince Johan Friso in a coma. The Prince was buried in an avalance while skiing off piste with a friend. But the Royal family have said that they still plan to come […]
Austria’s state railway system could be facing a multi-million pound bill if Italian officials are correct and that many of its goods wagons have got faulty wheels thanks to outsourcing in eastern Europe. According to a report on the Austrian state broadcaster the ORF, a Slovakian subsidiary firm of the rail company is responsible for […]
Dream of a new life ends in hospital
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A young couple from Vienna who were planning to start a new life in Germany are now fighting for their lives in hospital after a car accident while they were out celebrating with friends in Hamburg at the weekend. The two were only named named by local police as Marie-Thérèse H. (25) and Florian R. […]
Probe into soldiers rafting death
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Austrian accident investigators have started carrying out tests on the raft that capsized leaving a British soldier dead after an accident on the Inn river last week. The 22-year-old man, who has not been named, was on armed services ‘adventurous training’ exercise and although the river Inn which they were travelling along had been heavily […]
A British soldier has been killed in a rafting accident in Austria. Austrian police said that the 22-year-old British man had come with a group of other members of the British Army from Germany to take part in the rafting at Landeck in Tirol. Austria has seen torrential rain in recent days and experts are […]