Two people injured

Crash with tractor: child (6) was sitting in the passenger seat

The emergency helicopter had to be deployed to an accident involving two men and a six-year-old girl near Zwettl (Lower Austria) on Monday afternoon. The crash with a tractor unit resulted in a total of two injuries.

The driver of the car (59), whose six-year-old daughter was sitting in the passenger seat, had certainly imagined things differently. As he entered a junction with another goods road on the right, the tractor - driven by a 51-year-old man - rammed into him on the left-hand side in the area of the driver's door. 

Daughter and father in hospital
As a result of the collision, the car was thrown to the right into the field and came to a standstill there. The 59-year-old and the girl suffered injuries of indeterminate severity. The driver of the vehicle was flown by emergency helicopter to the hospital in Horn, the daughter was taken by ambulance to the Zwettl regional hospital. The 51-year-old tractor driver was uninjured.

The tractor sustained material damage and the car was also severely damaged. The vehicles were removed by relatives and the owner of the field was informed. The accident happened at the crossroads between Waldhams-Guttenbrunn and Schickenhof-Jahrings.