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Head-on crash after microsleep in Montafon

Both cars involved in the accident ended up as total losses.(Bild: Bernd Hofmeister)

On Saturday afternoon, two cars collided head-on at high speed in St. Anton in Montafon (Vorarlberg). Miraculously, the people involved in the accident were unhurt, but both vehicles ended up as total losses.

At around 2.10 p.m., a 59-year-old driver from Switzerland was driving his car on the Montafonerstrasse out of the valley towards Bludenz with a passenger sitting next to him. In the municipality of St. Anton, the Swiss driver was suddenly overcome by fatigue and nodded off. The microsleep had fatal consequences: The 59-year-old's car drifted into the oncoming lane on a slight right-hand bend and crashed head-on into the car of a 67-year-old woman from Tschagguns.

Nothing happened to the occupants - a minor miracle.(Bild: Bernd Hofmeister)

The two vehicles were so demolished in the crash that the two drivers had to be freed by the fire department using rescue shears. Hard to believe: apart from a few minor scratches, the three people involved in the accident were completely unharmed.