After Tuesday’s devastating gondola tragedy in the Tyrolean ski resort of Hochoetz, the mother of two accident victims described the dramatic scenes during and after the accident to the Danish media. Seriously injured, the daughter from the crashed gondola called her mother via Facetime.
A Danish family’s skiing holiday ended dramatically on Tuesday morning. A tree fell on the cable car and caused the gondola with the four Danes to fall about ten to twelve meters into the depths. They lay – two in the gondola, two outside in the snow – at the impassable accident site for half an hour before help could arrive.
Now Patricia T. spoke to the Danish media. She is the mother of the two adult children aged 19 and 20 who were injured in the accident and has now moved to Austria.
The person most affected by the accident was Patricia T.’s 49-year-old ex-husband, who had to undergo hours-long surgery and was put into an artificial coma. His 46-year-old brother, 20-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter are also still in hospital.
Thrown out of the gondola
The daughter was apparently the least seriously injured: she suffered an injury to her face and a fracture to her spine. She has been able to speak to her mother on the phone several times and report the accident. The 19-year-old told her mother that a tree had fallen – as Austrian police had said – and hit the family’s gondola.
The gondola then fell and crashed into the steep mountainside. The daughter’s 49-year-old father and 46-year-old uncle were thrown out of a gondola window and landed in the snow. The 19-year-old came to rest in the gondola on top of her brother, who was already unconscious at the time.
Called mother via Facetime
She called out to her father in panic, but only her uncle answered from the cold snow. The father is also said to have lost consciousness in the accident.
The seriously injured woman tried to search for help on numerous Austrian websites using her mobile phone and eventually came across the number of a ski rental shop in the area. According to certain information about the accident scene and the injured, rescuers arrived about half an hour after the accident.
Meanwhile, mother Patricia T. received a FaceTime call from her daughter. It was an absolute shock and horror moment for the mother, as she said: “She contacted me via FaceTime when her father – my ex-husband – had been picked up by the helicopter and she was waiting. My son had also woken up a bit, so it was terrible to sit at home and not be able to do anything.”
She has now arrived at the hospital with her children and can support them.
Source: Krone
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