Spectacular accident
Car crashes into bridge and plunges into stream
A driver collided with a bridge railing with full force late on Thursday evening in the Innviertel region and then crashed his vehicle sideways into a stream bed. The eCall system alerted the emergency services and first responders rescued the driver.
The wild accident happened at around 9 pm on Thursday in Neuhofen im Innkreis. A driver - no further details are known about him - lost control of his vehicle for unknown reasons and collided with a bridge railing with full force. After the collision, the car was flung into the bed of a stream. This was reported by the Neuhofen im Innkreis fire department, which was alerted together with the Ried fire department by the eCall system of the car involved in the accident.
When the fire department arrived, first responders had already freed the driver from his car. According to the Red Cross, he suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.
Soil removed
Meanwhile, the Florianis recovered the vehicle from the stream using a loading crane and lifted it back onto the road. Soil contaminated by the accident was removed from the creek area by order of the district authority. The operation took around two hours in total.
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