15-year-old dies after horror crash in Traun-questions stay!

15-year-old dies after horror crash in Traun-questions stay!

On Thursday evening, a jaunt ended tragically in Traun, in the St. Martin district, when a 15-year-old Russian citizen from Linz died in a serious traffic accident. As OE24 , was the young person with two passengers, a 17-year-old from Wels-Land and a 19-year-old from Linz-Land.

The accident occurred on the Wiener Bundesstraße when the young driver tried an overtaking maneuver and lost control of the vehicle. The car got in the ditch, took off and collided with a steel advertising medium. As a result, the car landed on the roof.

rescue measures and grief

The 15-year-old was caught in the wreck of the vehicle and had to be freed by the fire brigade. Despite immediate resuscitation attempts, he died at the scene of the accident. The two passengers suffered serious injuries and were immediately taken to a hospital. The police and first aiders were quickly on hand to provide first aid. Members of the crashed young people were looked after by the crisis intervention team.

The exact circumstances of the accident are still the subject of the investigation. Tragically, this incident represents part of the general problem of traffic safety. According to Europarl loses a frightening number of people annually in The EU in the event of traffic accidents or is seriously injured. Despite a decline of 36 percent in road traffic dead between 2010 and 2020, these numbers are alarming.

statistics on traffic safety

In 2019, 22,800 people died in road traffic, with 4,000 less being recorded in 2020. It is particularly alarming that 12 percent of the road fatalities were between 18 and 24 years old in 2018, although this age group is only 8 percent of the total population. Shockingly, it should also be noted that the global average is over 180 traffic fatalities per 1 million inhabitants.

The news about the tragic death of the 15-year-old and the serious injuries to his passengers are not only a shocking memory of the dangers of road traffic, but also a call for increased dealing with traffic safety and improving the conditions on the streets.