The holidaying family with three children had actually planned a cheerful toboggan tour in Bad Goisern (Upper Austria). Because they did not want to walk the route but preferred to drive up in a rental car, the project literally became stuck in the snow during winter driving conditions.
Vehicle recovery instead of tobogganing fun: Dad, mom and three children of nursery and primary school age went to the Trockentannalm in Bad Goisern on Tuesday. “There is actually a parking lot downstairs where people leave their cars and walk onto the toboggan run,” says Claus Ebner, chief of the Bad Goisern fire brigade. But the holidaymaker family, who were unfamiliar with the area, drove their rental car onto the forest road, which serves as a toboggan run in winter.
The tourists’ plan went well for a long time during winter driving conditions in the snow – “then the car broke away on the left side and slid into a ditch from which it could not get out,” says Ebner.
Rescue with snow chains
His fire brigade was called to rescue the rental car that was stuck in the snow, because even the breakdown service that was first called could not help. “We had to install snow chains on our truck,” says operations manager Ebner.
The fire brigade arrived on the scene in a forest, just below the Trockentannalm. With the help of a winch and pulleys, emergency services managed to get the rental car back on the road. The vehicle was coupled to the fire truck and brought into the valley.
Tourists were frozen
“We put the family in another truck during the operation so they could warm up. They were very cold,” says Ebner. No one was injured in the accident.
Stuck in car on ski slope
Emergency services were surprised by a similar incident at Krippenstein at Christmas last year. Four Chinese tourists wanted to enjoy the sunrise on the mountain on Christmas Day. On the way, they drove onto the ski slope, also in a rental car. That’s where the fun ended: the car got stuck on the track.
Source: Krone
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