In the first two months of 2023, 47 people died in traffic accidents on Austria’s roads. At the weekend, five road users were killed in an accident and last week there were a total of nine deaths, the Ministry of the Interior reported on Monday. From January 1 to February 26, 2023, there were 47 deaths on the Austrian road network – the same number as the previous year. In 2021, there were 27 deaths in the same period.
In the past week, four motorists, three car passengers, a bus occupant and a pedestrian were killed in six traffic accidents. A serious traffic accident took place in the Zell am See district of Salzburg on Saturday in which three people were killed. A 25-year-old motorist was driving with his two passengers (aged 29 and 36) on a state highway when he slid off lane on the snowy road and collided head-on with an oncoming Postbus. After the collision, the bus came to a stop in the steep embankment. The two occupants died at the scene of the accident, the driver of the car succumbed to his serious injuries in hospital.
The main cause is often carelessness
Six people died last week on provincial roads and one on a highway, on a highway and on a provincial road. In Burgenland, Salzburg, Styria and Vienna, the road deaths were regrettable. The main probable causes of the accident were carelessness/distraction and inappropriate speed in two cases each, and overtaking and misbehavior by a pedestrian in each case. Two accidents were single-vehicle accidents and five fatalities were foreigners.
So far this year in Lower Austria, the most people have died in accidents at the age of 13 – last year there were 11 in the same period. There were seven fatalities each in Salzburg and Styria, five in Tyrol, four in Vienna, Carinthia and Burgenland. On February 26, there were two fatalities in Upper Austria and one in Vorarlberg.
Source: Krone
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