Truck controls in Tyrol: New system should increase security!

Truck controls in Tyrol: New system should increase security!

At the Radfeld control point in Tyrol, there was a traffic accident between a car and a truck in the morning. A 53-year-old driver, who was around 100 km/h on the end of a column of truck, was only slightly injured despite the severity of the impact. He was taken to the Kufstein hospital after the accident, while the truck driver was unharmed. The car suffered total damage, and the underride protection of the truck was damaged, as orf tirol reported.

truck heavy traffic is intensively monitored in Tyrol. At the Radfeld control point, the building is now expanded to double size in order to create the necessary infrastructure for the increased personnel expenses. In the future, new systems for the automatic measurement of trucks will also be installed, as Österreichische Verkehrszeitung . Last year, more than 3,700 violations of truck driving bans were punished on the two checkpoints Kundl and Radfeld on the A 12 Inn Valley Autobahn. In addition, more than 2,300 trucks were prohibited from continuing. A mobile test train is used to support them, which is intended to uncover technical defects in trucks. In 2023, 11,500 technical defects were found.

stricter controls planned

Transport Councilor René Zumtobel emphasizes that all measures to control heavy traffic only make sense if they are comprehensively and strictly checked. The practices to control and improve safety in heavy traffic are central and are to be continued to be implemented consistently in Tyrol. Investments in infrastructure and control should increase security on the streets and prevent unwanted incidents such as the accident at the Radfeld control point.