On the Inntal highway

Driver (72) crashed into tree due to microsleep

The fire department had to recover the totally demolished vehicle.(Bild: zoom.tirol)

Presumably due to microsleep, a driver lost control of his vehicle on the Inntal highway (Tyrol) on Tuesday. He "shaved" several bushes over a length of 120 meters before the journey ended in a tree. 

On September 24, a 72-year-old Austrian man and his wife, a 57-year-old Austrian woman, were driving a car in the eastbound lane of the Inntalautobahn in Radfeld.

Driver freed himself
At around 11.25 a.m., the driver lost control of the vehicle due to a microsleep. He drove further and further to the right across the emergency lane and collided with several bushes along the embankment before hitting a tree on the embankment slope after 120 meters. The driver was uninjured and was able to free himself from the car after the collision, while his wife had to remain in the vehicle with undetermined injuries until the Kramsach fire brigade arrived.

The fire department cut the passenger out of the car.(Bild: zoom.tirol)

The woman was seriously injured
The car was a total loss. It had to be recovered from the embankment by the towing service and the Kramsach fire brigade using a crane. The 57-year-old female passenger was first treated at the scene of the accident by the emergency medical team and then taken to Kufstein Hospital.