A two-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries and a broken lower leg when a table-tennis table landed on him in Carinthia yesterday (Tues).The child was running around his 58-year-old grandfathers estate in St. Gertraud in the provinces Lavant Valley when a freak gust of wind blew the ping-pong table on top of him as he […]
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Pensioner killed in treehouse fall
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A Burgenland pensioner died after falling off a tree yesterday (Tues).Police in Gols said today the man, 77, wanted to cut some of the trees branches in his garden. But after climbing onto a treehouse to cut the branches the roof collapsed sending him plunging five metres to the ground.The man, who was found lying […]
An elderly Carinthian driver crashed into a shop entrance in Althofen today (Fri).Police in the province said the man, 86, steered his car into the store in an attempt to park the vehicle.Another elderly man a 71-year-old Althofen resident was squashed between a metal pole and the car after failing to get clear […]
Kicking cow hospitalises farmer
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An elderly farmer suffered a fractured lower leg as a cow kicked her during milking this morning (Mon).The woman, 64, from Gradnitz in Lower Austria was transferred to a clinic in Zwettl after her husband and son heard her screams while working in the kitchen.It was the latest in a series of incidents involving farm […]
Criticism of doctors at a Salzburg clinic is increasing after a second patient was given a drug he was allergic to.Peter Gerner, head of the anaesthetic and intensive care department at Salzburgs Landeskrankenhaus clinic announced last week hospital bosses opted for self-indictment after a 80-year-old woman died when her post-surgery suffering was treated with the […]
Karl Schranz suffers ski tour accident
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Skiing legend Karl Schranz has been hospitalised after suffering a severe concussion and bruises on a ski tour in Tyrol yesterday, it was confirmed today (Thurs).A spokesman at Zams clinic said newspaper reports that the 71-year-old was hospitalised yesterday after an accident near Sankt Anton am Arlberg were correct.Schranz told the Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper today: […]
A 32-year-old British ski instructor and a 22-year-old German skier were hospitalised after an on-piste smash in the Tyrolean ski resort of Scheffau on Monday, local officials announced today (Weds).Police said the Brit suffered several fractures, including some broken vertebras, while the German injured his right knee and left shoulder in the collision.Both were helicoptered […]