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Drama in the ski area: Two seriously injured when snowboarders collided!
On February 11, 2025, two serious accidents occurred in the Turracherhöhe and Bödele ski area. A 59-year-old was injured in a collision with a snowboarder who was fleeing. The body of a missing 44-year-old snowboarder from Germany, who died of hypothermia, was also found in Bödele.
Drama in the ski area: Two seriously injured when snowboarders collided!
There were tragic incidents during a skiing holiday in the Alps that have brought the safety situation for winter sports enthusiasts back into focus. On February 11, 2025, at 1:20 p.m. there was a serious accident in the Turracherhöhe ski area in which a 59-year-old German skier collided with an unknown snowboarder. According to police reports, both fell and slid down the slope, hitting another skier, a man of the same age from Burgenland. As a result of the collision, both skiers suffered such serious injuries that they had to be taken to the Schwarzach and Kalwang hospitals in two rescue helicopters. The snowboarder disappeared after the collision and the police are looking for the 35-year-old man with a striking reddish-brown goatee and whose snowboard is black and blue ORF Styria reported.
Rescue operations for missing snowboarder
Another incident occurred in the Bödele ski resort, where a 44-year-old German snowboarder went missing. After several days of intensive searching, the police finally found his body near Schwarzenberg. The man went snowboarding alone on January 20, 2024 and was reported missing when he failed to attend an important appointment. An alert parking lot operator spotted his vehicle, triggering a large-scale search that also included the use of police dogs. On February 8, another search operation resulted in exploring the untraceable area where the German apparently died of hypothermia after getting lost, according to reports All in.