Tragic Easter weekend: two traffic fatalities in Austria!
Tragic Easter weekend: two traffic fatalities in Austria!
on Easter weekend in 2025, which lasted from Good Friday to Easter Monday (April 18 to 21), there were two tragic traffic accidents in Austria, in which one person lost their lives. The accidents occurred in Lower Austria and Styria. According to the reports from [5min.at] (https://www.5min.at/520250421033/tragoedien-am-osterwochende-zwei-personen-verloren-ihleben/) and and OTS on Good Friday an fatal tractor accident in Neunkirchen, and on Easter Sunday a motorcycle accident in the Voitsberg district, Styria, instead.
A 67-year-old tractor driver lost control of his tractor on Good Friday and fell 50 meters down a slope. The man died at the scene of the accident. On Easter Sunday, a 31-year-old motorcyclist in the hospital succumbed to his injuries that he had suffered in a fall in the Voitsberg district.
fatal accidents in the Easter week
There were four fatal traffic accidents in Austria in the Easter week (from April 14 to 21 April 2025). If you compare these numbers with previous years, there is an interplay of accident statistics. Five traffic fatalities were registered on Easter 2024, while in 2023 an 83-year-old pedestrian in Styria had a fatal accident. The years 2020 to 2022 each recorded four traffic fatalities. The years with the lowest figures since 1968 were in 2013 and 2023, each of which had a dead man, while the maximum number of 1976 reached with 39 deaths.The Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner praised the police for their commitment during the "Action Safe", which aims to reduce dangers in road traffic. These measures actually seem to have an impact on the security situation in road traffic, even if the number of traffic fatalities in Austria between January 1 and April 21, 2025 was 76 - a slight increase compared to 72 deaths in the previous year.
statistical recording and monitoring
The data on traffic accidents are recorded by the corresponding police organs and regularly transmitted to statistics Austria in order to ensure continuous observation of the accident. According to statistics.at, this data of accident research and prevention are used and are published both quarterly and annually.
The legal basis for road traffic accident statistics form the road traffic accident statistics law and the regulation on the statistical recording of road traffic accidents with personal injury. These statistics are essential to continuously improve the safety in road traffic and to raise awareness of traffic safety.
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| Ort | Neunkirchen, Niederösterreich, Österreich |
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