Helicopter operation

Porsche lands in a stream: driver seriously injured

At 11.14 a.m. on Sunday, the Weiz municipal fire department was alerted to a traffic accident with a trapped person. The operation was dramatic.

Arriving at the scene of the accident, the emergency services saw the following: a car had left the road in Gleisdorfer Straße, broken through a wooden railing, overturned and finally came to rest in the Weizbach stream.

One seriously injured person was still in the vehicle and the 81-year-old Porsche driver had to be freed from the wreckage.

In the end, the emergency helicopter even had to be called in to remove the seriously injured man.