After the tragic train accident late Wednesday afternoon in St. Johann in Tirol (Kitzbühel district), in which a car was hit by a train and a four-year-old boy was killed, the father of the child (35) also succumbed to his serious injuries. injuries.
The 35-year-old from Saudi Arabia died on Wednesday evening in the Innsbruck clinic, police spokesman Stefan Eder told “Krone” when asked. The tragic accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the so-called Egger crossing. Presumably because of a traffic jam, the 35-year-old driver stopped exactly at the level crossing. His wife (34) and their children aged four, seven and eleven were in the car.
Father and son (4) hit by train
Suddenly the shock: the barriers went down. Eyewitnesses saw the terrible incident and started screaming loudly. “The warning calls allowed the mother and the two older children to get out of the car in time and get to safety,” the police said. Finally the unbelievable happened: the train was getting closer and could no longer brake in time. “The father and his four-year-old son were also outside the car, but were hit with full force by the regional express,” the detectives continued.
“Child had no chance of survival”“
When the alarmed emergency services arrived, the child and the man were near the car wreck. The woman and two other children were ten to fifteen meters away. “The child had no chance of survival,” operations manager Joachim Jochum told Krone on Wednesday evening. He succumbed to his serious injuries at the scene of the accident.
Unfortunately, the injuries were also too serious for the 35-year-old father. After first being treated at St. Johann Hospital and then transferred to the Innsbruck clinic, he too died as a result of the devastating accident.
Source: Krone
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