Collision of ambulance and car in Salzburg: two dead • NEWS.AT
According to the police, two people were killed in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a car on Saturday evening in Taxenbach (district of Zell am See in Salzburg). It was the car driver, a 42-year-old Hallein, and the patient (76) in the ambulance. The 60-year-old ambulance driver and his companion, a civil servant (19), experienced surprises of an unspecified degree.
The accident happened around 5:30 p.m. on Pinzgauer Straße (B311) in the area of the Trattenbach tunnel, as the “Salzburger Nachrichten” reported in its online edition on Saturday evening. As the police reported on Sunday night, the Halleiner had got into the oncoming lane with his car for reasons that are still unclear and collided head-on with the oncoming ambulance, which had been on the way to the Schwarzach hospital.
The driver was trapped behind the wheel as a result of the collision and had to be rescued by the fire brigade. He was flown to the Salzburg clinic by the emergency doctor helicopter, and the civil servant was taken to the Zell am See hospital. The 76-year-old Pinzgauer who was transported in the rear succumbed to his discoveries at the scene of the accident despite attempts at resuscitation.
The relatives of the accident victims were looked after by a crisis intervention team, and the Salzburg public prosecutor commissioned an expert to investigate the course of the accident.
The Salzburg State Police Headquarters announced that several people were injured in a rear-end collision on the Tauernautobahn (A10). They were brought to the Schwarzenberg Clinic in Schwarzach by the Red Cross, it said. An 89-year-old Swede overlooked a backlog in the area of the Hüttau motorway exit and drove into a Swiss car, which crashed into a German car that was already approaching due to the force of the impact. All three vehicles were significantly damaged, two of which were towed away, it said.