New details have been released about the accident involving a towing vehicle that left three dead and several seriously injured in Burgenland on Saturday. As krone.at learned, the autopsy of the dead is scheduled for next Tuesday. None of the seriously injured are now in a life-threatening condition. The smuggler is a Russian citizen with a French residence permit. He had been arrested.
The dead are one female and two male adults. A seriously injured person was initially in mortal danger, but that is now prohibited. There are no children among the seven seriously injured.
Prisoners believed to be Syrian citizens
The van’s 20 occupants are said to be Syrian citizens, but their identities have not yet been fully established.
Lenker wanted to flee from police control
The driver of the white van wanted to flee early Saturday morning via the A6 for a police check at the border crossing Kittsee – Jarovce. The towing vehicle then turned off at the first exit off the highway. The van overturned due to the excessive speed.
15 rescue vehicles at the accident site
Five emergency helicopters from Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland were deployed: in addition to the intensive care transport helicopter (ITH), there were also Christophorus 2, 3, 9 and 16. There were also 15 rescue vehicles at the accident site.
According to the state security center, the injured were transported to hospitals in four federal states: to Vienna, to Wiener Neustadt, St. Pölten and Hainburg (Bruck ad Leitha district) in Lower Austria, to the hospitals in Eisenstadt and Kittsee in Burgenland and to Grazer.
Four fire brigades with 13 vehicles were on the scene. The rescue and clean-up operation ended shortly after 2 p.m., the state security center announced. The Kittsee border crossing to Austria was closed during the fire brigade operation.
Source: Krone
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