By Rob Hyde A woman from Salzburg has pressed charged against her husband who threatened to kill her whilst giving her a driving lesson. The 36 year old man lost his patience with his wife whilst attempting to teach her to drive, and he said he would kill her. He threw his mobile phone at […]
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Winter tyres are still obligatory
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Winter tyres usually have to be fitted to your cars from October until Easter. The bad weather conditions require an extension of their use. One should change the tyres, if the thermometer has displayed more than seven degrees Celsius regularly, said Rudolf Leeb, regional head of the driver’s club ÖAMTC in Burgenland (Eastern Austria). The […]
A pensioner and his dog were dragged down the road by a car after the lead got caught in the bumper of a car at Marchtrenk in Upper Austria. The 78-year-old had been walking his dog when it suddenly ran and attacked the tyre of a car that had stopped at a red light beside […]
Austrian police are hunting a sweet-toothed lorry driver who drove up to a factory at Bludenz in Vorarlberg and collected 18 tonnes of chocolate and then vanished. According to the logistics firm that charted the lorry from Chechnya the load had been collected by a lorry driver using fake paperwork to loaded 33 pallets of […]
Lauda admits faking
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Ex Austrian Formula 1 champion driver Niki lauda has admitted he faked his exam results to make his parents think he had graduated with top marks and he would then be allowed to go driving. The racing pro admitted he was far more interested in motor racing than completing his Matura – the Austrian end […]
A drunk driver reported his car stolen after he forgot to take it out of gear or put on the handbrake, and the vehicle made off across a field and crashed into a wood. The out-of-control drive left the car a write off after the incident at Neuhofen an der Krems. The 51-year-old man from […]
A 26 year-old car driver fleeing from a police patrol on the south highway by Grafenstein on Wednesday was found to have a boot full of smuggled cigarettes. The driver lost control and skidded off a country road and landed in a ditch when poice checked the car they found he had a boot full […]
Trainee driver caused frontal crash
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A 20-year-old Austrian is critically ill in intensive care after his car was hit head-on by a trainee driver from Afghanistan, who was practising for his driving licence. The accident happened at the weekend on the B139 in Leonding in the Linz-Land district when the car driven by the Afghani learner driver, aged 33, crossed […]
An elderly motorist is recovering in hospital after ploughing into a row of parked cars. The 80-year-old man crashed into the vehicles at a taxi rank in the city of Salzburg yesterday evening (Thurs) after an overtaking manoeuvre. He had to be hospitalised. Officials in the city said today that another person – a cab […]
A 30-year-old woman passed away after crashing into an oncoming car in Lower Austria yesterday evening (Thurs). The driver passed away before paramedics arrived at the scene of the accident near Herzogenburg. The driver of the other car, a 35-year-old woman, and her three children were hospitalised in St. Pölten with undisclosed injuries. Police are […]