A truck transporting dead pigs got stuck in a sewage plant on a farm in Upper Austria yesterday (Mon) after its driver was sent the wrong way by his SatNav.Fire-fighters in Pettenfirst used a crane to drag the company lorry out of the cesspit.It ended up getting stuck when the driver who was not […]
An elderly fisherman had to be hospitalised after he broke his arm trying to climb a steep embankment with a ladder.The 83-year-old wanted to go fishing at the Gaflenzbach stream near the Upper Austrian town of Weyer with a friend yesterday (Weds). The pensioner fell more than two metres into the riverbed after losing his […]
Fire-fighters used jump cables to rescue a woman from an ice-cold river yesterday (Weds).The 39-year-old from St. Valentin in Lower Austria jumped into the Enns near the Upper Austrian town of Traun after her dog was about to be swept away by the waters. She was able to rescue the canine, but failed to reach […]
A 36-year-old woman had a chunk of her upper lip bitten off by her own dog, it has emerged.The Bad Ischl resident had opened the boot of her car to let out her Bernese Mountain Dog when it suddenly attacked her on Tuesday.The Upper Austrian underwent surgery at a local clinic. It has not been […]
Provincial political leaders are set to turn their guns on Lufthansa following revelations that the aviation firm is to axe its Linz Munich service.Local newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten reports today (Tues) that the German company will stop offering flights between Blue Danube Airport in Linz, Upper Austria, and the German city of Munich as of […]
The political pressure on Federal Railways (ÖBB) is rising following the firms announcement to axe a direct connection between the second- and third-biggest cities in the country.ÖBB said last week it would stop running a direct high-speed Intercity connection between the Upper Austrian city of Linz and Graz in the province of Styria after reorganisation […]
Politicians in Upper Austria have turned their guns on Federal Railways (ÖBB) bosses after the firm announced plans to end its Linz Graz Intercity service.The state-owned company said today (Fri) that it would stop offering a direct high-speed connection between the Upper Austrian city of Linz and Graz in the province of Styria after […]
A young Upper Austrian survived after a train ploughed into him last night (Thurs/Fri).The 18-year-old from Kaltenberg was staggering along the railroad track when the express train approached. Its driver slammed the brakes on when he spotted the drunk in his headlights, but still slammed into him.The young man was hospitalised with a fractured skull […]
An elderly Upper Austrian died after he fell off a ladder picking apples yesterday afternoon (Weds).Officials in Pettenbach announced today that the 83-year-old man’s body was found lying next to the collapsed ladder which was set up on an sloping pasture – by his son. He suffered a broken neck.A local doctor could only […]
Two teenagers have been accused of setting dozens of hay bales on fire yesterday (Thurs).Officials in Prinzersdorf in the province of Lower Austria said today no one was injured when the 70-odd bales of hay burnt away on a pasture outside the town.Around 40 fire-fighters were kept busy for hours putting out the blaze, they […]