A 16-year-old embarked on a wild chase with the Viennese police on Sunday evening: officers from the state traffic service had previously attacked the driver on the Südosttangente (A23) when he apparently wanted to engage in a race with another driver. The operation ultimately ended with a crash into a concrete screen.
After 1 a.m., the traffic police on the A23 noticed that two vehicles apparently invited each other for a street race. When both cars accelerated again to 121 km/h, the plainclothes officers identified themselves with a horn and flashing lights. One of the vehicles then reduced its speed, the other accelerated and overtook several vehicles on the right.
I lost control and hit the guardrail
Instead of stopping, the driver of the suspect car continued on the tangent heading north, drove his vehicle onto the A23 exit on the Eastern Motorway (A4), lost control of the car and hit a guardrail. The driver then stepped on the accelerator again and continued racing, weaving his way behind the vehicles in front of him, eventually overtaking them without signaling and forcing them to swerve and swerve, according to police. The vehicle finally left the highway at the Simmeringer Haide exit on the A4…
Crashed into a concrete canvas at a speed of 100 km/h
In the area of Landwehrstrasse, the driver turned around and drove along the sidewalk and grass verge, destroying the concrete boundary stones, accelerated and continued his journey towards Zinnergasse. There he drove against the direction of travel onto the Freudenau harbor bridge. After driving over the traffic island and road signs on Freudenauer Hafenstrasse in Vienna-Leopoldstadt, he eventually lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a concrete barrier at a speed of more than 100 km/h, according to police.
Six young people were injured
The car’s occupants and driver then fled, but were apprehended by police. The driver is a 16-year-old Austrian. He and his 15-year-old German passenger were taken to hospital by emergency services with injuries. The other prisoners are two 16-year-old Turkish girls, a 16-year-old Austrian woman and a 17-year-old teenager. They were also taken to hospital by the professional rescue service with injuries. The driver was reported several times.
Source: Krone
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