Girl in hospital

Father and daughter (5) crash with mountain cart

Shock for a family on vacation during an excursion in the Tyrolean Paznaun Valley on Wednesday. A 25-year-old man went off an alpine path while riding a mountain cart. His five-year-old daughter was on board. 

The 25-year-old Israeli borrowed a mountain cart from the Zeinisbahn mountain station in See on Wednesday afternoon. According to the police, he probably took his five-year-old daughter on his lap and then headed down into the valley.

However, the man did not get very far. For unknown reasons, he veered off the mountain path and fell eight meters down a steep slope together with the five-year-old. The girl suffered serious injuries in the fall. She had to be taken to Innsbruck Hospital by rescue helicopter.