Police seized the licence of a motorist who was caught bombing along at 280 kilometres per hour (kph) on a motorway in Upper Austria.The US American citizen was also issued with an undisclosed fine for breaching the 130 kph speed limit on the A1 western motorway near Oberwand in his Aston Martin sports car on […]
A 24-year-old Slovak driver was caught going nearly twice as high as the speed limit on a motorway in Salzburg.The man was stopped by a police car after a radar trap flashed him driving at 230 kilometres per hour (kph) on the A1 western motorway near Eugendorf this morning (Mon). The general speed limit on […]
A Hungarian was dragged along for more than 100 metres by a car during a robbery at the weekend.The businessman was loading the trunk of his Mazda in Vienna-Donaustadt when a masked criminal approached him from behind on Saturday morning. The attacker got behind the wheel after the Hungarian ignored his appeals to hand over […]
Around 25 per cent of Austrians are cycling each day or several days a week, according to a traffic information organisation.The Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) said today (Mon) its research suggested that one out of four Austrians were cycling on a daily basis or more than once a week. The club said it expected this […]
Almost one in three Austrians have no holiday plans in 2011, a survey shows.The Institute for Leisure and Tourism Research (IFT) and motorist association ÖAMTC announced today (Fri) 29 per cent of Austrians said they would not take a vacation this year. Researchers said that especially people with a low income would not take a […]
Police officers in Vienna discovered more than 800 bars of chocolate in a thieving duos car, it was announced today (Fri).Officials said policemen increasing their presence in the district of Wieden checked two mens vehicle after the pair were spotted visiting several supermarkets in little time.The officers members of a special anti-crime group called […]
Car fuel costs nearly 10 per cent more than at the beginning of the year, a motorists association has claimed.Car club ÖAMTC announced today (Thurs) that one litre of car petrol cost up to 9.5 per cent more at the moment than it did in early January. The organisation pointed out that the recently introduced […]
Police in the Austrian-Italian border region are investigating after finding cigarettes worth 7,000 Euros in an abandoned car.Officials in the southern province of Carinthia said today (Tues) that police officers discovered 248 cartons of cigarettes in a vehicle parked at a motorway rest stop car park near Völkermarkt.The tobacco products were confiscated after a check […]
A young boy had to be hospitalised after he was hit by a lorry in Vienna yesterday (Thurs).The nine-year-old child was crossing the road in the citys Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district when an oncoming truck knocked him to the ground. He was transferred to a clinic with undisclosed injuries.The driver told police that his view was blocked […]
The body of a Bosnian man suspected of clubbing his wife to death with an iron pole five days ago has been found.Miladin G.s corpse was discovered behind the wheel of his Audi Q5 yesterday (Thurs). The car was salvaged from the Salzach River just a few hundred metres from the family home in Pabing-Nußdorf […]