Traveling with scooter – boy (5) hit by car: driver was drunk

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Fatal accident early Tuesday evening in East Tyrol: A five-year-old boy riding a scooter crashed into a car in Matrei and fell. The child suffered injuries. According to police, an alcohol test on the driver of the car came back positive.

The accident happened shortly before 6 p.m. According to police, the five-year-old boy, who was traveling with his mother, was driving the connecting street Pattergasse and arrived at the intersection with Remlerstraße collided head-on with a car coming from the right.

Child thrown onto the street
The force of the blow threw the child onto the road. She suffered significant injuries and had to be taken by ambulance to the Lienz district hospital after initial treatment at the scene of the accident.

The driver was slightly drunk
“An alcohol test on the driver involved showed that he was slightly drunk,” the investigators said.

Source: Krone

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