Crash in the Montafon

Motorcyclist plunged 50 meters down a slope

The biker had to be treated before being taken to hospital.(Bild: Bernd Hofmeister)

There was a serious crash in the Vorarlberg municipality of Thüringerberg on Friday: a biker left the road and crashed down a steep slope. 

A motorcyclist's ride between the municipalities of Schnifis and Thüringerberg came to a bad end on Friday: there, on the Jagdbergstraße, the biker lost control of his vehicle for unknown reasons, left the road and fell around 50 meters down the adjacent slope.

The biker sustained undetermined injuries in the crash, was rescued and first treated by the emergency doctor who had been alerted, before being taken to hospital by rescue helicopter.