According to the Public Prosecution Service, the driver of a concrete mixer (54) did not pay attention to the traffic on the “Pyhrn” highway for eight seconds and crashed into the car of a Styrian woman (52) without braking. The woman did not survive. The man will appear in court soon.
The most terrible scenes took place at the end of May last year on the “Pyhrn” between Kalsdorf and Schachenwald towards Graz: there was another traffic jam on this part of the route. A 52-year-old from the Leibnitz district therefore stood in line on the hard shoulder with her van. Suddenly an incredibly loud bang was heard: a concrete mixer drove into their car without braking and rammed it.
Woman had no chance
The force of the impact even caused the 16-ton truck to overturn and lie on its side next to the center barrier. The fire brigades of Unterpremstätten, Zettling and Werndorf tried with all possible means to save the woman’s life. But she had no chance, her car was literally crushed.
The driver of the concrete mixer, from Croatia (54), will have to appear before a single judge in Graz next Thursday for murder due to gross negligence. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he drove into the end of the traffic jam without braking and therefore into the vehicle of the deceased person, because he was not paying attention to the traffic for eight seconds.
Source: Krone
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