Austrian charged over death of Pole in Croatia

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A man from Styria, South-Eastern Austria, caused a deadly car accident in Zagreb, Croatia, last weekend. The 31-year-old man crashed into the car in front so that the trailer became loose. A 50-year-old Polish man died and the Styrian was charged. According to the Croatian police, the accident happened at the A1 traffic node Gospic […]

Tractor-driving farmer falls down embankment

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A farmer was hospitalised after he suffered an accident with his tractor yesterday (Weds).The 48-year-old man was driving his tractor up a pass road near Taxenbach in Salzburg’s Pinzgau region when the vehicle and the manure tank it was towing overturned on a bend.The farmer sustained undisclosed injuries when the tractor and the trailer plunged […]

Farmer losing apples causes massive jam

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A main road in Vorarlberg had to be closed down for around an hour after a farmer lost a trailer full of apples last night (Mon).The 46-year-old from Rankweil kept on driving after failing to notice that the rear flap of his tractor’s trailer had opened due to a technical error on the L190 motorway […]

Hungarian crushed between lorries in Upper Austria

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A 50-year-old Hungarian was seriously injured yesterday (Thurs) when he was crushed between the trailer of a passing lorry and his own near Suben in Upper Austria’s Schärding district.Police said today the Hungarian and a 34-year-old fellow countryman were putting chains on their lorry when the trailer of a passing Polish lorry slid off Subener […]