Emergency services saw a horrific scene on Thursday afternoon on the B50 near Oberwart: two cars collided head-on during an overtaking manoeuvre. The only thing left of the two cars were piles of rubble. Three victims of the accident were seriously injured and two others were slightly injured.
The accident happened on the B50 near Oberwart towards Kemeten: When a driver behind the wheel of a silver car from the neighbourhood tried to overtake a truck before a hill, an accident occurred. The car collided head-on with an oncoming dark car.
Metal pierced body
The driver’s car was thrown against the trailer and a piece of metal from the truck pierced the hood at the height of the passenger seat. “Luckily there was no passenger in the seat. Otherwise it would have been fatal,” the emergency services report.
A third driver was able to avoid a serious collision and the damage to his car was limited.
Care for patients
In the head-on collision, two men and a woman were seriously injured. The patient had to be flown to the hospital in Wiener Neustadt by the medical emergency helicopter C18. One seriously injured person was taken to the hospital in Oberwart by the Christophorus 16 helicopter, the other was taken to the university clinic in Graz.
Two other victims of the accident escaped with minor injuries.
Accident site closed
The road was closed for a long time while the victims of the accident were rescued and the clean-up work was carried out. The exact course of the head-on collision is still being reconstructed.
Source: Krone
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