The high toll of blood on Austria’s roads leaves no one cold, with five people killed in accidents in the past week alone. Two more were killed on Tuesday night. More than 140 road deaths have been reported since the beginning of the year, according to the Interior Ministry. Each of these accidents has its own course, history and cause. The “Krone” knows the accident hotspots and shows ten reasons why it crashes so often.
A few hours after his driver’s license test, a 17-year-old caused a fatal traffic accident in Altenberg near Linz on Tuesday evening. His 16-year-old passenger and the 36-year-old driver of the oncoming car died on the spot. They are only two of the seven people who lost their lives on Austrian roads in recent days.
These human tragedies on asphalt are almost never foreseeable, it is only possible to collect and evaluate them afterwards and learn from them. Statistics Austria recorded a total of about 35,000 accidents in urban and rural areas in 2022 with 43,262 injuries across Austria – 370 people lost their lives. The figures and causes for 2023 already point to similar patterns at the end of the first half of the year. In the past week alone, excessive speed was the cause of road accidents three times. The causes of accidents, ranked by frequency, should also be a reason for all road users to think:
Source: Krone
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