Drama on the B25: Motorcycle crashes in e-bikes-helicopter alarmed!

Drama on the B25: Motorcycle crashes in e-bikes-helicopter alarmed!

On April 20, 2025, around 2:10 p.m. on the B25 near Göstling on the YBBS, a serious traffic accident. A 42-year-old motorcyclist from Vienna and his 44-year-old passenger, also from Vienna, suffered injuries to an indefinite degree, after her motorcycle in a right-hand bend got onto the opposite lane for an unknown cause and collided with a guiding bag and two e-bike drivers. The two e-bike drivers, a 70-year-old and a 67-year-old from the Scheibbs district, were also injured. The emergency doctor helicopter Christophorus 17 transported the motorcyclist to the state clinic Amstetten, while the other three injured were brought to the State Clinic Scheibbs. At this point, the B25 was completely closed until around 2:50 p.m., which significantly influenced the rescue measures and the accident recording.

The causes of motorcycle and bike accidents on country roads are often due to loss of control in curves and unadjusted speed. This also confirms the increasing number of accidents in the region, since more than 150 bicycle accidents with personal injury in Lower Austria were registered in 2024, whereby the proportion of e-bike drivers in the accident statistics has increased significantly, such as [Kosmo] (https://www.kosmo.at/drama-motorrad-kracht-in-e-bikes-hubrauber-im-im-im reported.

accident statistics in Austria

Since the beginning of 2025, 79 traffic fatalities have already been complained about in Austria, which represents an increase compared to the 70 road dead in 2024. This emerges from the provisional data of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In the period from January 1 to April 13, 2025, not only two pedestrians died, but also a motorcyclist and a light motorcyclist during tragic traffic accidents. Last week, four of the five deceased road users, who also accidentally accidentally, were recorded.

Information about the most common causes of accidents provides the current statistics: misconduct by pedestrians is reported as often as carelessness, distraction and unadjusted speed, which in several cases led to danger in road traffic. A serious accident by a small truck driver, which overtook three light motorcyclists on April 12, 2025, ended tragically when one of the young drivers was fatally injured, which once again focused on security awareness on the streets. BMI establishes a direct connection between the number of accidents and traffic safety.

data and their surveys

The recording of road traffic accidents with personal injury in Austria is regularly transmitted to Statistics Austria. The aim is to observe the accident to provide reliable data bases for accident research and prevention. The annual and quarterly publications of accident statistics help to better understand and minimize the dangers in road traffic.