An Upper Austrian woman had to be hospitalised after she was attacked by a cow yesterday (Sun).The woman from Obergrünburg was hiking in the Kalkalpen national park with her husband when the animal attacked her. The 54-year-old teacher sustained a flesh wound on her left thigh. She was airlifted to a hospital in Steyr.One day […]
A 26-year-old pilot had to carry out an emergency landing on a corn field when the engine of his small aircraft stopped working at an altitude of 2,000 metres.None of the five people on board were injured when the Cessna 182 touched down on an agricultural field near Gmunden, Upper Austria, yesterday (Sun). The group […]
An elderly Viennese woman received a greetings card 17 years late, it has been reported.Local newspapers reveal today (Mon) that the Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus resident got the card which was sent off by her brother Manfred in France in 1994 last week.The resident of France congratulated his sister Anneliese to her 70th birthday and expressed […]
Hundreds of households in Vienna were left without electricity for several hours yesterday morning (Thurs).Shortly after the power outage kicked off, energy provider Wien Energie said the reason was unclear and a matter for investigation.Around 1,800 homes, offices and shops in Vienna-Währing were affected by the disruption.
A farmer has bled to death after a work accident, police said today (Fri).The 59-year-old woman, who lived on her own, got under her tractors mowing device when the vehicle rolled backwards after she parked it. Investigators in Brunnenthal, Upper Austria, assume that the incident occurred in the early morning yesterday.She was found lying in […]
A 28-year-old motorcyclist ended up in a wastewater tank after crashing into a truck.The man from Kirchberg-Thening steered into the Czech lorry when the vehicle took a bend the moment he wanted to overtake it in Hörsching near Linz, Upper Austria, yesterday evening (Thurs).The biker was hurled into the air before landing in a roadside […]
A German has been convicted for firing at houses in Vienna-Hietzing with a slingshot.The 51-year-old was arrested after staff at a doctors practice informed police that the man was damaging the buildings facade last September.The weapon he was using was identified as a high-precision slingshot which has to be registered by owners in Austria. The […]
A worker collapsed and died after being stung by a wasp, it has emerged.The 43-year-old from Perg told colleagues what happened before he passed out in front of them at his company in Wartberg ob der Aist near Freistadt, Upper Austria, yesterday (Thurs). The co-workers failed to resuscitate him.A doctor said today the man died […]
A 56-year-old man from Carinthia succumbed to his head injuries sustained when he crashed into the back of a tractor.The motorist may have been speeding when he slammed into the agricultural vehicle which was going at walking pace on the B114 near Trieben in the Styrian district of Judenburg yesterday evening (Thurs).The farmer got away […]
Police are investigating after a German couple were numbed and robbed at a motorway rest stop in Carinthia on Tuesday night.Officials in Villach said today (Thurs) the pensioners a man, 68, and his 66-year-old wife parked their caravan in a rest stop car park at the A11 Karawanken motorway to spend the night […]