A tragic accident claimed the life of a 22-year-old Austrian this week. The young man from Oberndorf, in Flachgau, was travelling in Bavaria when he pulled into the lane used by oncoming traffic to overtake a row of cars. But he smashed into the side of another car driven by another Austrian driver, a 45-year-old […]
Two Germans have been injured after their light aircraft crashed near Mauterndorf. Police in the province of Salzburg said the pair were hospitalised after the incident this morning (Weds). They explained that the pair had been the only ones on board the Cessna light aircraft which plunged to the ground around one kilometres from the […]
A German paraglider was hospitalised after crashing against a rock face in Vorarlberg at the weekend.Police in the town of Au said today (Mon) that the man suffered serious injuries in the accident which occurred on Saturday afternoon. The resident of Rettenberg in the German state of Bavaria was transferred to a local hospital via […]
A lorry driver was reprimanded for ignoring cargo safety rules.Police in the province of Salzburg said today (Tues) that tree trunks on the trailer of the truck from the German state of Bavaria were not secured with lashing straps or chains.Traffic police officers issued a report to provincial prosecutors after stopping the driver in Eugendorf […]
An Austrian travelling on a coach from London to Budapest has been put in custody in Germany after police discovered drugs in his luggage.Officials in Deggendorf in the German state of Bavaria announced today (Mon) that the 25-year-old man from Linz in Upper Austria was on a coach connecting the capitals of Great Britain and […]
Drivers are being warned of the high possibility of traffic jams at the weekend.Austrian car clubs ÖAMTC and Arbö said today (Thurs) that, especially on Saturday, substantial tailbacks were expected for key routes in Tyrol, Salzburg and Vorarlberg. The organisations explained their predictions were based on the fact that several German regions including Bavaria, Hamburg […]
A German cleaner has been invited to spend a weekend in the Tyrolean Alps after handing in an Austrian tourists lost wallet containing thousands of Euros.Police in Mindelheim in the German State of Bavaria announced today (Thurs) the owner a man from the Tyrolean town of Reutte spontaneously decided to offer the honest […]
A woman from Salzburg was reunited with her baby five hours after the girl was kidnapped at a shopping centre.Nina Zwilling was in an H&M store in Salzburgs Europark mall when she noticed that baby Nora was no longer in her cradle yesterday morning (Weds).The mother-of-three who was also accompanied by her two-year-old boy […]
Three Austrians aged 34, 43 and 45 have been arrested at a traffic check point on the A3 motorway near Passau, Bavaria, for possession of four kilos of hashishGerman police said they had found the drug and 35,000 Euros in cash in a plastic sack underneath the trios luggage in the boot during a search […]