Horror accident on A2: Fifth woman died after tragic collision

Horror accident on A2: Fifth woman died after tragic collision

Scheiblingkirchen, Österreich - A tragic traffic accident occurred on Tuesday morning on the A2 near Scheiblingkirchen in Lower Austria. A Ukrainian minibus, which was occupied by eight people, crashed into a trucks with a Spanish license plate. A total of five inmates of the small bus, including several women between the ages of 53, 54, 61 and 64, died at the scene of the accident. A fifth passenger, also a woman, later succumbed to his serious injuries in the hospital. The 52-year-old driver of the smallbuss was seriously injured and is in custody, while the inmates of the trucks only wore slight injuries, such as Kosmo reported.

The accident occurred around 6:20 a.m. when the 43-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer moved from the Gleißenfeld motorway car park to the road and the minibus crashed into the rear of the truck with full force. Due to the severity of the accident, the rescue of the victims was extremely challenging. The fire brigade and rescue workers, including three emergency helicopters, were on site to save the trapped people. Main brand inspector Peter Luef said that the situation was "unimaginably tragic". The injured were transported to nearby clinics in Wiener Neustadt, Vienna and Eisenstadt, as the Kleine Zeitung also reported.

custody and investigation

The public prosecutor's office has initiated the driver of the small bus and against the driver of the truck investigations into negligent killing and negligent bodily harm. The minibus driver is already in custody after the court ordered until April 17 due to the risk of escape and blackout, while the 43-year-old is on foot from Peruvian truck drivers. Despite the moving circumstances, the police are also dealing with the clarification of the exact course of the accident, which is once again in focus on traffic safety on Austrian roads.

insights into traffic accidents in Austria

In Austria, road traffic accidents with personal injury are regularly recorded and statistically evaluated. The data is collected electronically by police organs and continuously conveyed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior Statistics Austria . The accident statistics are published quarterly and annually in order to provide reliable data for accident research and prevention. In view of the increasing number of traffic accidents recently, which already demanded four deaths and several injuries in the previous week, observation of the accident is of great importance.