Alcoholic drivers caused several accidents in Upper Austria on Friday evening. Two incidents in particular caused a stir. A young firefighter had an accident in a company car that evening and two ‘champagne sisters’ also had their children with them when they had the accident.
“Helping people in need is the best thing you can do,” one 30-year-old wrote on Facebook. He is a volunteer with the fire and rescue service. But now he also needed help.
On Friday around 1.30 am, the man from Schlierbach was drunk (1.36 per mille) alone in a fire truck on the Pyhrnautbahn (A9) towards Wels. At the Ried/T exit of the highway. his car crashed into a shock absorber. The command vehicle overturned and landed on its roof. Emergency services had to rescue the injured comrade.
“Personal story in the background”
He was taken to the Kirchdorf clinic but was released on Friday afternoon. “It is not common for people to use a fire engine for leisure. Of course there is a personal story in the background. “The colleague certainly did not come from a party room, he was always a very responsible member,” explains Markus Voglhuber, spokesman for the state fire brigade command.
Coincidentally, a police patrol passes by
Almost three hours earlier, a cheerful evening for a sister duo in Goldwörth had ended with the obtaining of driving licenses. When one of her sisters went home with her six-month-old son, the 40-year-old drove off the road. She called her sister, who was also drunk, to help. She packed her sons (6 and 10 years old) into the car and drove to the scene of the accident. The siblings were spotted by a patrol who happened to be passing by. An alcohol test showed 1.56 or 1.54 per mille. The two said they drank two bottles of champagne.
Source: Krone
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