Serious traffic accident on the Fernpass: B179 closed for hours!

Serious traffic accident on the Fernpass: B179 closed for hours!

A dramatic traffic accident caused a significant attention to a significant sensation on Wednesday morning on the heavily frequented Tyrolean Fernpassstraße (B179). Around 8:30 a.m. it crashed at Lake Blind when a truck and a car collided for reasons unknown. The impact force was so violent that the car stopped across the road and the radiator grille of the truck was torn down. There was considerable damage to both vehicles and traffic quickly came to a standstill.

As the Krone reported, the B179 had to be completely blocked in both directions for about two and a half hours after the accident, which led to enormous traffic jams in the morning. The closure could not be lifted again until 11.10 a.m. According to the police, a person was slightly injured in the incident and taken to the hospital in Reutte. However, the exact circumstances of the accident, whether it was a rear-end collision or a frontal collision, are still unclear, as is the