The Innsbruck area has been affected by a power cut for a second time in as many days. Local electricity providers said today (Thurs) around 3,000 households had been affected by the 45-minute disruption yesterday afternoon. They explained investigations into the cause were ongoing. Tyrolean officials stressed that the most recent incident was unrelated to […]
A German tourist suffered serious injures in a sledging accident yesterday evening (Thurs).The 38-year-old man came off the illuminated track in Jerzens, Tyrol, and skidded down a 15-metre ravine. He was unconscious when pals discovered him at the bottom of the rocky descent shortly after the incident.The man was transferred to the valley by mountain […]
A primary school student died instantly in a freak skiing accident around midday today (Thurs).Officials in the ski resort of Rußbach in Salzburgs Tennengau region announced that the boy whose nationality and age were not given skidded down a hill for around 200 metres after dropping out of a tow lift. He was […]
A teenager suffered a cut above his eye in a freak traffic incident yesterday (Mon).The 15-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a car being driven by his father near Bergheim in the province of Salzburg when a three-centimetre thick sheet of solid ice smashed through the windscreen window.The object, which was a square […]