A 52-year-old man from Hüttenberger sat with his two sons on a tractor in his yard in the St. Veit district on Thursday evening. When he got out, the heavy vehicle suddenly rolled away – with the two children (9 and 5) in the driver’s cab.
While driving uphill on a pasture track at about 6:40 p.m., his sons sat in two mounted passenger seats (left and right). “The man stopped the truck, applied the handbrake and wanted to get off. Suddenly the tractor rolled backwards,” police said.
The 52-year-old desperately tried to stop the vehicle – unsuccessfully. The tractor rolled about 20 meters down the meadow path, came off the right side of the path and then fell 15 meters down. “The tractor has overturned!”
Sons thrown from chairs
The father was able to jump out of the vehicle in time, but his sons could not. “His two children were thrown from their seats and fell onto the lawn, causing unspecified injuries,” an official said.
The five-year-old boy had to be flown by rescue helicopter C 11 to the clinic in Klagenfurt and the nine-year-old had to be taken by the rescue service to the clinic in Klagenfurt. The father appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, police said. 15 troops from the FF Hüttenberg were deployed.
Source: Krone
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