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 […]
Traffic experts have warned of immense tailbacks on motorways across the country this weekend.Car clubs informed motorists jams of up to 30 kilometres (km) were possible at some of Austrias highways such as the A10 Tauern motorway and the A13 Brenner motorway.They pointed out today (Fri) that tens of thousands of Germans were expected to […]
Dozens of Austrian pilgrims had a narrow escape as their coach crashed on a motorway in Croatia.Local police announced today (Thurs) no one was injured when the vehicle ploughed into a fence erected alongside a motorway near Sestanovac yesterday.Officials told the Croatian Times online newspaper that the group consisting of 47 Austrians were […]
Police are investigating after a German couple were numbed and robbed at a motorway rest stop in Carinthia on Tuesday night.Officials in Villach said today (Thurs) the pensioners a man, 68, and his 66-year-old wife parked their caravan in a rest stop car park at the A11 Karawanken motorway to spend the night […]
A German lost his licence for racing at nearly 190 kilometres per hour (kph) on a motorway in Salzburg yesterday evening (Tues).Traffic police in Zederhaus said today the 56-year-old from Ravensburg was stopped on the A10 Tauern motorway for going at 189 kph in a 100 kph limit zone.The general speed limit on Austrian highways […]
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 […]
An Italian driver has been caught doing more than 100 kilometres per hour (kph) above the speed limit.The 22-year-old from northern Italy had to hand over his licence after a radar trap recorded him as he bombed along a 100 kph limit stretch on Tyrols A13 Brenner motorway at 210 kph yesterday evening (Tues). Local […]
Police seized the licence of a motorist who was caught bombing along at 280 kilometres per hour (kph) on a motorway in Upper Austria.The US American citizen was also issued with an undisclosed fine for breaching the 130 kph speed limit on the A1 western motorway near Oberwand in his Aston Martin sports car on […]
A 24-year-old Slovak driver was caught going nearly twice as high as the speed limit on a motorway in Salzburg.The man was stopped by a police car after a radar trap flashed him driving at 230 kilometres per hour (kph) on the A1 western motorway near Eugendorf this morning (Mon). The general speed limit on […]
Construction industry giant Strabag SE has acquired a German hydraulic engineering expert.The Vienna-based firm said yesterday (Weds) it fully took over Ludwig Voss GmbH retroactively on 1 January 2011, adding that it was awaiting the green light from competition watchdogs. Strabag did not disclose the takeover price.Ludwig Voss is a family business specialised in water […]