A semi-trailer truck overturned on the western motorway towards Salzburg in the Melk district and remained in all three lanes. A 20-year-old died in a car accident in Mauerbach.
A semi-trailer truck loaded with cucumbers overturned in an accident on Tuesday on the Westautobahn (A1) towards Salzburg near Neumarkt an der Ybbs (Melk district) and remained lying across all three lanes at right angles to the direction of travel. The result was a block between Ybbs and Amstetten-Ost. There was a kilometer-long traffic jam. The truck driver was slightly injured, police said.
“The motorway will remain closed for at least two hours,” said an ÖAMTC spokesman. According to initial information, no one was injured, the police said upon request. According to the information, the accident occurred around 1 p.m. There was initially no information about the cause.
Two serious accidents in the immediate vicinity
A second accident in Lower Austria ended fatally: a 20-year-old driver drove his car off the road and crashed into a tree, the “ORF” reported. Any help came too late for the driver, who was alone in the car. The car was destroyed.
On Monday night, a car accident nearby left four people injured. A 20-year-old Viennese may have lost control of his vehicle shortly after midnight in a right-hand bend on the L120 between Scheiblingstein in Klosterneuburg and Königstetten (Tulln district). The car crashed into an embankment, the police reported in a broadcast on Tuesday. The 19-year-old passenger from Vienna was seriously injured. The driver and two 17-year-old inmates from the Mödling district were also taken to Tulln Hospital. (APA)
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