A Bulgarian died in a collision on Upper Austrias A8 Innkreis motorway this morning (Thurs).Traffic police said the man was killed when the car he was travelling in crashed into an articulated truck near the Ried im Innkreis exit. Officials added that three passengers of the vehicle were hospitalised with undisclosed injuries. The lorry driver […]
An elderly farmer died after his tractor fell on top of him as he worked in a forest in Upper Austria.The 80-year-old was already dead when he was discovered by a hiker in woodland outside Pfarrkirchen in the provinces Rohrbach district this morning (Fri). Police said he might have died instantly after the vehicle overturned […]
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 Salzburgs 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 […]
A 54-year-old woman suffered severe head injuries and multiple fractures when she was hit by a tram in Vienna this morning (Weds).The resident of Brigittenau district was knocked down by a line 38 tram in the district of Döbling when she attempted to cross the road without looking out for traffic.The driver of the public […]
Two teenagers were reprimanded for dangling off a driving tram.The boys aged 13 and 14 clung onto the back of the public transport vehicle in the Upper Austrian city of Linz this morning (Weds). They ran away when its driver stopped between two stations after being told by passengers what was going on.The offenders were […]
An elderly woman has sustained serious injuries when she was hit by a tram.Wiener Linien, the company in charge of public transport services in the Austrian capital Vienna, said today (Tues) a 62-year-old woman was hospitalised with a traumatic brain injury.The firm explained the woman stepped on the tram tracks in Alsergrund district without checking […]
A 27-year-old worker was injured in a freak accident on a skiing slope in Vorarlberg yesterday (Weds).The man was replacing direction and warning signs with new models on the piste in Laterns. His colleague, 69, was behind the wheel of a snow groomer. The elderly man started the vehicle and ran down his co-worker in […]
A Czech man has been arrested after traffic policemen discovered dozens of marijuana plants in his car during a traffic check in Lower Austria.Officers found 83 hashish seedlings in the boot of the 32-year-olds vehicle during a campaign in which hundreds of drivers were checked on the A5 northern motorway yesterday afternoon (Weds).The man told […]
An entrepreneur died on the spot after he was pushed against a wall by a truck in an accident on a worksite in Upper Austria yesterday morning (Weds), police said today.The 43-year-old head of a storage hall in Wallern in the provinces Grieskirchen district was giving directions to the Polish driver as he wanted to […]
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 […]