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Tragic accident on B106: 48-year-old dies after vehicle rolls over
On November 2, 2025, a fatal accident occurred on the B106 near Rangersdorf when a vehicle left the road.
Tragic accident on B106: 48-year-old dies after vehicle rolls over
On November 2, 2025, a tragic accident occurred on the B106 Mölltal Straße, in which a 48-year-old man from Spittal/Drau was fatally injured. The accident happened around 5:15 a.m. when the vehicle in which the deceased was traveling with a 24-year-old passenger left the road for unknown reasons. As a result, the car collided with a concrete ditch, drove over a wooden fence, hit a pile of wood and overturned before being thrown onto the fence of an adjacent property, as klick-kaernten.at reports.
The passenger, who was sleeping at the time of the accident, woke up from the impact and was uninjured. Tragically, the driver succumbed to his injuries at the scene of the accident despite extensive resuscitation efforts by rescue and emergency medical personnel. The rescue efforts were supported by the automatic emergency call system eCall, which was activated automatically after the impact. Residents also called the emergency number 112.
The eCall system in detail
In the EU, eCall is recognized as a life-saving system that automatically sends a message to emergency services with the exact location and other data after a traffic accident. According to road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu, eCall was developed to reduce the response time of emergency services. The system transmits, among other things, the location, vehicle identification and status of the eCall to speed up medical care. The EU estimates that up to 2,500 lives could be saved every year through the introduction of eCall across the EU's 25 member states.
The eCall system became mandatory for all newly approved vehicle models up to a maximum of 3.5 tons on March 31, 2018. The introduction aims to increase survival rates after serious accidents in particular and reduce the time between accident and medical care by up to 50% in rural areas. Despite the positive outlook, surveys show that many drivers in Germany are skeptical about eCall: around 40% of those surveyed have never heard of the system and 52% express concerns about possible hacker attacks, as documented by verbraucherzentrale.de.
The incident on Mölltal Straße illustrates the importance of such systems. By automatically triggering the eCall and immediately notifying the emergency services, the driver's chances of survival could potentially have been increased. The example also shows the importance of technological advances in improving road safety, while addressing privacy and false alarm concerns.