Large-scale rescue, fire and police operations Tuesday in the town of Weiz in Styria: a man (72) collided with his car on a train carriage on the Styrian railway.
At 9:50 a.m., the big alarm went off in Weiz in eastern Styria. At the Kapruner-Generator-Straße (B64) intersection with Europa-Allee, controlled by traffic lights, a car had just collided with a Steiermarkbahn train set.
Blessing in disguise
The driver of the accident car must have had several guardian angels: “When we arrived, the injured person was already receiving first aid from the Red Cross. The car door could be opened normally, we didn’t have to cut other people out of the car or anything like that,” says firefighter manager Karl Feichter in an interview with “Krone”.
It was lucky that no one was in the back, says Feichter. “Because the car was already hit harder.”
The Weiz fire brigade was on site with 22 men and four vehicles and the road was quickly reopened to traffic.
First train crash at this point
Incidentally, according to Feichter, the intersection is not a particularly conspicuous place of the accident: “I don’t think a similar accident has ever happened here.”
The 33-year-old train driver and the eleven passengers were unharmed.
Source: Krone
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