Shock accident on L41: Car crashes against tree-passenger injured!

Shock accident on L41: Car crashes against tree-passenger injured!

On June 1, 2025, a serious accident occurred on the L41 in Zellgasse shortly before midnight when a 22-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle. The driver, accompanied by an 18-year-old passenger, stated that he had driven too quickly. The speed limit on this section of the route is 50 km/h, which the driver apparently had not taken into account. The misfortune occurred on street kilometers 1.8 when the vehicle came off the street, got into the ditch and finally crashed into a tree that was uprooted by the impact.

The vehicle came to a standstill contrary to the direction of travel in the ditch and suffered a total damage. However, both occupants were able to leave the vehicle independently and were only slightly injured. They immediately received medical care on site and were then brought to the Dornbirn and Bregenz hospitals. The L41 had to be blocked on both sides from 11:55 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. for the accident recording and recovery of the vehicle. This information is rooted by a report by Vol.At

risk factor tree

Accidents with trees are particularly dangerous, as the German Road Safety Council (DVR) states. Frontal combination with trees have low chances of survival even in modern cars. These statistics have been recorded in Germany since 1955, with 507 people killed in tree accidents in 2013 alone. The DVR reports that on country roads every fourth death is due to a tree accident. Trees with a stem diameter of only 10 cm represent fatal dangers for drivers. At speeds of 70 km/h, the chances of survival decrease significantly during a frontal impact with a small tree. In order to increase traffic safety, the DVR recommends to avoid new plantings of trees on the side of the road and to install protection planks between the street and tree, as on Autozeung.de is.

traffic accident statistics

The current traffic accident statistics are used to analyze the causes of accidents and sequences to improve traffic safety. Comprehensive data is recorded on accidents that are involved in the people and vehicles involved. These statistics are of great importance for measures in the areas of legislation, traffic education, road construction and vehicle technology. The aim is to show structures of the accident and the relationships between the factors that lead to accidents. This is supported by the recording of accidents with personal damage or property damage as well as the collection of types of accidents, which in turn are the basis for measures of state transport policy. More information on this is available on the website of Destatis.de