A large-scale operation by rescue workers was launched early Sunday evening by a driver who had crashed his BMW into a tree on Klederinger Strasse near the city limits between Vienna and Lower Austria. Two ÖAMTC emergency medical helicopters were also deployed.
At apparently high speed, the BMW with Viennese number plates crashed into Vienna on a dusty road, first against a traffic sign and only a fraction of a second later against a tree. The driver and three minor children who were also in the car were trapped in the completely destroyed wreckage.
Fire brigade, ambulance, police and helicopter in action
Brave witnesses immediately rendered first aid and set the rescue chain in motion. Several vehicles belonging to the Vienna Fire Brigade, the Johanniter Unfallhilfe, the Social-Medical Service and the Vienna Professional Rescue Service (an ambulance and an emergency ambulance) immediately drove to the scene of the accident.
The control center also sent the ÖAMTC emergency helicopter Christophorus 9, whose pilot landed in a green area of the road, and Christophorus 33 from Wiener Neustadt. Meanwhile, the director blocked Klederinger Strasse in both directions and struggled to contain onlookers who wanted to take pictures of what was happening with their cell phones.
Seriously injured children flown to hospital
After the accident victims were freed from the wreckage, paramedics and emergency physicians were able to begin stabilizing the patients. An eleven-year-old girl was flown by Christophorus 9 to the Vienna General Hospital and a five-year-old boy by Christophorus 33 to the Donauspital. The rest of the injured were taken to hospital by ambulance.
The Vienna Police Traffic Accident Command has launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.
Witnesses: “The driver raced!”
According to eyewitnesses, the BMW was traveling at “hell speed” when the driver lost control of the steering wheel. An old volunteer firefighter also described to the “Krone” that in his estimate the degree of destruction of the accident car indicated a speed of “at least 100 kilometers per hour or more”. The speed limit at the scene of the accident is 50.
No further information was available on the condition of the victims of the accident. Despite several attempts, the press service of the Vienna Professional Rescue Service could not be reached.
Source: Krone
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