More than 6,000 trucks were banned from Austrian roads so far this year, according to the federal traffic ministry.The ministry, which is headed by Social Democrat (SPÖ) Doris Bures, announced today (Tues) its Federal Traffic Authority (BAV) stopped and examined 27,600 lorries of all types and sizes since last January. It added 6,100 of them […]
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Plunging ice injures car passenger
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A teenager suffered a cut above his eye in a freak traffic incident yesterday (Mon).The 15-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a car being driven by his father near Bergheim in the province of Salzburg when a three-centimetre thick sheet of solid ice smashed through the windscreen window.The object, which was a square […]
More than 1,000 cars were hauled away in Vienna over the past four weekends, it has been announced.Drivers union ÖAMTC said today (Mon) 1,042 illegally parked vehicles were towed away in the capital on the past four Saturdays and Sundays when hundreds of thousands of Austrians and foreigners came to Vienna to do their Christmas […]
Police find shot chamois in car boot
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A 44-year-old man has been put in custody after police discovered a dead chamois and an unregistered weapon in his car.Traffic police officers found the killed animal and an unlicensed gun, which features a sound absorber, in the boot of the mans vehicle during a traffic check in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria.He was arrested after […]
An army sergant died when a boozed-up lorry driver ploughed into his vehicle in Carinthia this morning (Weds).The 49-year-old soldier from Rinkenberg in Carinthia was returning from a night-time military drill. He died shortly after the collision with the oncoming truck of severe injuries to his chest.The 43-year-old lorry driver from Griffen was found to […]
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 […]
Plans to turn Mariahilfer Straße, one of Viennas most popular shopping streets, into a pedestrian area would be well received, a poll has shown.More than six in 10 (60.3 per cent) readers of the Austrian broadcaster ORFs news website back such an idea, whereas around 35 per cent oppose it. Votes are still coming in […]
A 33-year-old Austrian has died shortly after a car accident in Hungary.The man from the Austrian province of Styria died at a clinic due to the massive injuries he suffered in the head-on collision on the M70 main road near Letenye yesterday (Weds).Local police said today the driver of the other car a Romanian […]
Hundreds of drivers have fuelled their cars at a new discount petrol station in Vienna.The station managed by Salzburg-based businessman Markus Friesacher in cooperation with discount supermarket chain Hofer started doing business in the citys Simmering district yesterday (Tues).One litre of diesel fuel and regular petrol costs 0.99 Eurocents in a special offer […]
Road toll offender attacks policemen
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A Slovakian driver has been arrested for attacking two policemen, it has been announced.Viennese traffic officials said today (Mon) the 45-year-old kicked the officers when they fined him for driving on the A22 Donauufer motorway without a road toll sticker on Saturday.The tourist was put in custody in a Viennese jail. He will face a […]