Alcohol involved – wrong-way driver collided head-on with oncoming traffic

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ghost driver! A 56-year-old from Kirchdorf an der Krems (Upper Austria) could not ignore it late Thursday evening when a drunken wrong-way driver approached him with the S33. He had to be flown to hospital by a rescue helicopter. His opponent in the accident is also injured.

Two people were injured in an accident with a wrong-way driver on the S33 in the St. Pölten district on Thursday evening. A drunk 48-year-old Lower Austrian drove his car in the opposite direction to the prescribed direction. At the Traismauer junction there was a head-on collision with the car of a 56-year-old from the Kirchdorf an der Krems district.

Both injured
Both drivers were injured and trapped in their vehicles. The occupants were freed by the fire brigade and received emergency aid at the scene. The Upper Austrian, who had traveled in the direction of St. Pölten according to regulations, was flown with the rescue helicopter Christophorus 2 to the University Hospital St. Pölten. The rescue took the 48-year-old to the University Hospital Krems an der Donau.

Source: Krone

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