Schwechat: Dramatic traffic accident in the Rannersdorf Tunnel!

On February 12, 2025, a serious traffic accident occurred in the afternoon in the Rannersdorf tunnel on the S1 towards Schwechat. The Schwechat Volunteer Fire Department was alerted immediately after receiving reports of several people possibly being trapped. Fortunately, it turned out that no one was stuck in the vehicles. However, there were two slightly injured people who were transported to hospital by emergency services. Two children who were also involved in the accident were uninjured, but were given a “trauma bear” by the emergency services to calm them down. Firefighters had to rescue two of the four vehicles involved using a crane and a jack-up tow truck, while the tunnel was completely closed for the duration of the cleanup, resulting in increased traffic, according to fireworld.at reported.

The accident was just one of several incidents that occupied the Schwechat fire department in a very short period of time. On December 16, 2024, there was another serious accident involving two vehicles on the A4 Ostautobahn, to which the Schwechat Volunteer Fire Department was also alerted. There was initially talk of four people being trapped, but this turned out to be incorrect. While the fire brigade was helping with the clean-up work in this area, a serious traffic accident involving three vehicles occurred on the opposite lane, in which four people were injured, some seriously. A passenger had to be carefully rescued using hydraulic rescue equipment. As a result, there was also a fire in a nearby industrial company, which further intensified the fire department's operations meinkreis.at reported. The accidents led to enormous traffic jams in both directions and the appeal to create an emergency lane was loudly emphasized by the emergency services.