The so-called “emergency lane” on motorways has been hotly debated recently after serious car accidents have happened in the past days in Lower Austria and Styria. Drivers often do not form corridors so that emergency services can pass. The problem can also be observed on motorways in Salzburg. If there is a traffic jam, some […]
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 motorcyclists were hospitalised after plunging into a building excavation.The men, aged 41 and 21, apparently failed to notice warning signs and barriers erected ahead of the construction site on Monday evening. The friends crashed through the road blocks set up by workers on one lane of the B45 main road near Zellerndorf before ending […]
Police shut a busy motorway to rescue a disorientated family of ducks.Motorists called the local traffic police after spotting how the 12-member family were about to enter the busy three-lane A10 Tauern highway near Golling in Salzburg this morning (Fri).Police officers preliminarily closed the motorway in one direction to save the ducks lives. Three ducklings […]
A 59-year-old driver ploughed into another car after suffering a heart attack yesterday afternoon (Weds).The Vienna resident passed out behind the wheel after having a heart attack while driving on the Brigittenauer Lände in the citys Brigittenau district shortly after 4pm.Another driver was slightly injured when the dying mans car crashed into his vehicle. Paramedics […]
A Slovakian biker shocked drivers on an Austrian motorway by driving in the wrong direction to look for his wallet.The motorcyclist was stopped by Carinthian traffic policemen near the Wolfsberg exit after terrified motorists called to report him speeding the wrong way down the A2 southern motorways breakdown lane yesterday (Weds).The 34-year-old man told police […]