Crashed into a tree

Ground gave way: Woman crashed with wheel loader

A 51-year-old farmer suffered injuries on Saturday afternoon when she was on her way to load hay bales with her wheel loader.

At around 3.30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, a 51-year-old woman drove off the road with her wheel loader as she was coming from Berg im Drautal in the direction of Greifenburg to load hay bales onto the trailer in a meadow.

Crashed into tree with wheel loader
"On the dirt road, same municipality, the 51-year-old drove too close to the edge of the embankment, whereupon the ground gave way and the wheel loader overturned to the right over the embankment there and crashed into a tree," the police describe. Although the woman was able to free herself from the wreckage, she was injured to an undetermined degree in the accident and had to be flown to Villach Regional Hospital by the "RK1" rescue helicopter. The wheel loader sustained considerable material damage.