Seriously injured
German crashes while hiking in a wheelchair
A German family's hiking trip in Kleinwalsertal in Vorarlberg ended badly on Friday: a 63-year-old man in a wheelchair fell ten meters.
The German family from the district of Fürth had set off on a hike in Kleinwalsertal on Friday. The tour took the group from Baad in the direction of Alpe Widderstein. One of the family members, a 63-year-old man, was using an electric wheelchair.
At around 3 p.m., the 63-year-old suddenly went over the edge of the well-paved hiking trail with his wheelchair and fell around ten meters down a steep embankment. He landed in the bed of the Bärguntbach stream, where he lay seriously injured in the water.
Flown to Kempten hospital
A first aider immediately rushed to the wheelchair user. He pulled the man out of the water and provided first aid. The Mittelberg mountain rescue team arrived with a total of ten members and pulled the injured man from the bed of the stream. He was then flown by emergency helicopter to Kempten Hospital in Germany.
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