Drama in the ski area: Two seriously injured in colliding snowboarders!

Drama in the ski area: Two seriously injured in colliding snowboarders!

Bödele, Schwarzenberg, Österreich - on a skiing holiday in the Alps there were tragic incidents that put the security situation for winter sports enthusiasts again. On February 11, 2025, a serious accident occurred in the Turracherhöhe ski area at 1:20 p.m., in which a 59-year-old German skier collided with an unknown snowboarder. According to the police reports, both plunged and slid down the slope, grasping 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 brought to the Schwarzach and Kalwang hospitals with two rescue helicopters. The snowboarder disappeared after the collision and the police are looking for the approximately 35-year-old man with a striking red-brown chin beard, whose snowboard is Schwarz-Blau, as Orf Styria reported.

rescue actions after missing snowboarders

Another incident occurred in the Bödele ski area, where 44-year-old German snowboarders were missing. After several days of intensive searches, the police finally found his body near Schwarzenberg. The man had broken up for snowboarding alone on January 20, 2024 and was reported to be missing when he did not notice an important date. An attentive parking lot operator discovered his vehicle, which triggered the large -scale search, in which police dogs were also used. On February 8, another search was made to explore the unobtrusive area in which the German apparently died of hypothermia after he had strayed, so All-in .