A police patrol from Lower Austria stopped a badly damaged car in the vicinity of Wösendorf on Tuesday: cracks in the windshield, the side and rear windows were covered with plastic film, the body was perforated. So much for an unusual, if not spectacular use…
However, the vehicle contained a Ukrainian family, a 30-year-old driver with his wife and parents. “They looked tired and tired,” recalls one man in uniform. No wonder: the family had only left Mariupol, the hotly contested port city in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, three days earlier.
2,000 kilometers and countless hours on the road after getting into their car in the middle of the war zone, their journey through Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic ended in one of the most beautiful places Austria has to offer. Where the driver in view of the life-threatening escape – the car had numerous bullet holes and damage from shrapnel in addition to the broken window – apart from a penalty, of course.
In addition, officials from the Weißenkirchen post office referred the family, whose financial resources were already exhausted, to the Birngruber car dealership in Krems, which made the VW roadworthy again free of charge. While Mayor Christian Geppner provided free housing for those affected in his mother’s boarding house. Satisfied and rested, they continued their journey towards Italy.
Source: Krone
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