Flipping the bird was given a new meaning in Austria this week when a truck filled with plucked turkeys overturned, closing a busy motorway in the process. The accident happened on the main Austrian motorway – the A1 – that runs from the city of Salzburg to the capital Vienna and happened close to the […]
An Austrian company is part of a group that has taken on the task of constructing and running part of an Irish motorway. Strabag SE, a technology company that provides construction services, is part of the DirectRoute consortium who won the contract for the construction job, they announced on Monday. The Vienna-based company has a […]
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 […]
Thieves stole a bus from a bus company depot on Sunday night or the early hours of Monday The twelve metre long bus was stolen from the depot in Amstetten. Police believe the thieves have already left the country with the bus. The luxury 52-seater tour bus made by the company Setra has an estimated […]
A car thief tried to escape police doing 200 kilometres per hour (kph) yesterday (Thurs) on the A1 motorway in Salzburg. Europe-wide investigators reported that the Polish man who had stolen a luxury car worth at least 45,000 Euros in Switzerland shortly before, overtook other vehicles on the service lane and the green area of […]
A man who drove along a motorway into the wrong direction for several kilometres (km) was found to be seriously drunk. Police in Salzburg said the 36-year-old German was stopped near Siezenheim after going on the A1 western motorway into the incorrect direction for around 15 km yesterday morning (Sun). Officers confiscated his licence after […]
A coach was kept from continuing driving for having one wheel too few on Tuesday. The Czech passengers continued their journey back home in a replacement vehicle, traffic police said today (Thurs). The driver was fined after they found out the six-wheel coach lacked a back wheel. He argued having been incapable of fixing a […]
A man from Ukraine was arrested after police found more than 400 cigarette cartons in his car. The 30-year-old was stopped during in a traffic check on the A2 southern motorway in Villach-Land district, Carinthia, near the Austrian border with Italy yesterday evening (Weds). He was put in custody after 425 cigarette cartons were discovered […]
A motorcyclist will have to do without a licence for months after being caught going 300 kilometres per hour (kph). The 30-year-old was stopped by a traffic policeman after a radar trap positioned on the A1 western motorway near Sattledt revealed his offence yesterday afternoon (Weds). The man, whose 23-year-old girlfriend was his pillion passenger, […]
Two young men arrested in Völkermarkt, Carinthia, on Wednesday are accused of having made 7,000 Euros by stealing from people at motorway service areas across the country, police said today (Fri). The felons, aged 19 and 22, are in custody. They are suspected of being behind a string of pickpocketing offences at highway rest stops […]