In Pinzgau

Car overturns after flying 25 meters over an embankment

On Monday evening in Pinzgau, a 59-year-old female driver left the B165 between Bramberg and Neukirchen, crashed down an embankment and overturned twice.

A woman from Pinzgau (59) was driving on the Gerlos Bundesstraße between Bramberg and Neukirchen am Großvenediger at around 9.30 p.m. on Monday evening when she suddenly left the road and crashed down an adjacent embankment on the right.

According to the police, her car took off and hit a meadow after 25 meters in the air. The car overturned twice. It only came to a halt after another 25 meters.

The woman managed to free herself from the car. An emergency doctor treated her at the scene and she was taken to hospital in Mittersill. She was not under the influence of alcohol, as a test showed.