An Austrian who never took a driving test faces charges for breaching traffic rules after being caught behind the wheel on Sunday.Asked by traffic police for his licence in Ruhstorf an der Rott, Germany, near the Austrian border, the 51-year-old man admitted that he has never possessed one. Bavarian traffic officials contacted their colleagues in […]
A German man lost his licence after he was caught speeding by a radar trap three times on the same day.Traffic police followed and stopped the 28-year-old tourist after the third offence in the town centre of Innsbruck, Tyrol, yesterday (Sun). Officials said today the man was going at 120 kilometres per hour (kph) in […]
Almost one in two drivers killed on Austrian motorways are foreigners, new research has revealed.Traffic Club Austria (VCÖ) said today (Thurs) that 49 per cent of motorists who died on the countrys motorways during the past five years were foreigners. The independent traffic and transportation watchdog added that 44 per cent of people involved in […]
The president of the Salzburg Labour Chamber (AK) has admitted being “stupid” for driving under the influence of alcohol.Siegfried Pichler confirmed newspaper reports that he his driving licence has been taken away after being caught well over the legal drink drive limit near the city of Salzburg recently.”I was simply stupid, I dont want to […]
A pensioner has been arrested after being caught driving without a licence for the fourth time in as many months.The 64-year-old resident of Salzburg sped off when police asked him to pull over in a routine traffic check near the town of Hof yesterday (Weds). The man was caught after a wild street chase minutes […]
A two-year-old boy is in hospital after being mauled by a Rottweiler on a playground in Lower Austria yesterday (Thurs).Sebastian was climbing on a rocking horse when the five-year-old dog Dino attacked, biting him on the backside.The Rottweiler which already injured a girl three years ago was crossing the playground in Ternitz with […]
A teen joyrider faces charges for driving an unregistered car on a motorway in Vorarlberg.The 16-year-old boy from Wolfurt was stopped by traffic policemen on the A14 Rhine Valley Motorway last night (Weds/Thurs) after he ignored the 130 kilometre per hour (kph) speed limit.Officers found that the licence plate of the vehicle, considered as being […]
Bungling crooks were arrested after tapping the wrong kind of petrol from a parked car.The Slovakian pair aged 26 and 28 stole three satellite navigation systems, four tyres and licence plates from parked cars in northern Burgenland before heading towards the Austrian-Slovakian border on Monday.They drilled a hole into a parked cars sheathing […]
An 83-year-old woman punched and bit two policemen as she faced being banned from the roads in Styrias Bruck an der Mur district yesterday (Thurs).The pensioner who failed to present a driving licence during a routine traffic check on the B116 main road near Kapfenberg, lashed out at the officers when they asked her to […]
The country’s first driving school for disabled people has opened in Upper Austria.Catholic charity Caritas, which manages the driving school in Leonding near provincial capital Linz, said today (Fri) people with physical disabilities and people with learning difficulties could take driving lessons at the institution.Caritas official Mathias Mühlberger explained: “Getting a drivers licence is often […]