Shock moment in Burgenland. During his routine Tuesday morning drive in the Güssing district, the driver of a public bus winced in horror. As he drove past a construction site, the shovel of an excavator came at him and slammed into the windshield. He escaped with his life a hair’s breadth away.
The driver of the Südburg company was on Tuesday on the Landesstraße 385 from Olbendorf to Oberdorf. Around 07:00 he passed a construction site.
“Everything went so fast”
Suddenly the arm of an excavator mounted on a flatbed truck swung in the direction of the bus. The shovel collided with the vehicle, right where the steering wheel was.
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Driver Fritz H. reacted sharply: “I jumped out of my seat in a flash and threw myself aside, otherwise the excavator would have caught me.”
The 57-year-old had several guardian angels. Except for whiplash syndrome, for which he was diagnosed in hospital, he and the six passengers on the bus escaped unhurt.
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Now bus driver Fritz H. from Güttenbach has two reasons to be happy: “Tomorrow I will be 58. Today I can celebrate my second birthday.” We are glad that no one is injured,” emphasizes Südburg director Siegfried Tanczos.
Source: Krone
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