The compulsory use of winter tyres rule ends this weekend on Sunday when spring officially arrives for the road transport authorities. The fact however that people will no longer be obliged to wear winter tyres does not seem to have been observed by mother nature – with snowfalls predicted on Monday in many parts of […]
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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 […]
Austrians doubt first aid skills
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A devastatingly low number of Austrians are familiar with first aid, according to a new poll. Spectra said today (Fri) that only eight per cent of people living in the country feel “very well prepared” in cases of an emergency. Around 16 per cent of Austrians have never sat a course about how to administer […]
A 45-year-old woman from Vienna died when a car plummeted over a 300-metre embankment in the Salzburg Alps yesterday (Sun). Two other passengers of the vehicle were injured in the accident. Local newspapers write today that a woman suffered serious injuries while a man got away with nothing but cuts and bruises. The incident reportedly […]
Police have decided not to arrest a drunken driver – although the man bombed along a road in a 50-kilometre-per-hour (kph) limit zone at more than 150 kph. The boozed-up man was caught going at 152 in Hörsching near Linz, Upper Austria, yesterday evening (Sun). He failed to stop when a police car followed him. […]
Pensioners’ car plunges into creek
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Two elderly women were saved from drowning after a car crash yesterday morning (Thurs). The car of the friends, both aged 72, came off the road for reasons unknown and fell into the Traisen River near Schrambach in Lower Austria. They failed to get out of the vehicle which quickly filled with water. Road maintenance […]
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 […]
Bikers end up in building pit
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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 […]
Road roller driver drops down ravine
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A 26-year-old worker was airlifted to a hospital after he fell down a 50-metre embankment while operating a street roller yesterday afternoon (Mon).The man from Altenmarkt in Salzburgs Pongau region came off the rural road at the roadwork site in Rennweg near Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia. He sustained life-threatening injuries when he dropped down […]
More than a dozen passengers had a narrow escape when a coach was at risk of plunging down a descent and into a river yesterday (Mon).The 52-year-old driver of the vehicle came off the bendy mountain pass road in the Carinthian district of Spittal an der Drau for unclear reasons. He told the 13 passengers […]