A German pensioner couple crashes down a slope in their car in Tyrol.
Four people are seriously injured, one woman is knocked down by a cow.
Hippach - In a small village in the Zillertal, a strange, serious accident occurred on Saturday in which four people were seriously injured.
Presumably because of a technical defect, a car with a German pensioner couple drove into a cattle drive in Tyrol and injured several people, six of them in total.
At first it was said that seven people were injured in the accident in the 1,000-strong community of Hippach, but the police have now corrected their information: In addition to the seriously injured pensioner duo from Germany (78 and 82), two other people suffered serious injuries: How the
Tiroler Tageszeitung
describes a 17-year-old woman being knocked down by cows when the vehicle broke through the herd.
The 39-year-old driver also had to be hospitalized immediately.
A few days earlier, a serious traffic accident had also occurred on a Fernpass road in Tyrol, here too, German tourists were involved.
Tyrol: Serious accident during cattle drive - German pensioner couple lose control of their car
As the Austrian police stated, the downhill car rolled into the end of the train of people and animals after an escort vehicle was rammed.
The car, occupied by two people, finally came to a stop on a boundary wall.
In addition to several police patrol cars, two emergency helicopters and two voluntary fire brigades were also in use.
The accident occurred around 1 p.m. during the cattle drive from Hochschwendberg.
According to current assumptions, the cause of the accident was a technical defect in the brake; an expert was called in.
The animals were not injured in the serious incident.
In August, a 39-year-old German lost his way during a Watzmann hike and fell fatally.
A storm finally put the rescue workers in danger.
(PF)
