Accident in the Zillertal
Senior citizen (93) crashed his car into a stream while pulling out of a parking space
Spectacular traffic accident on Thursday afternoon in the Tyrolean Zillertal! While trying to park his car, a 93-year-old man went over the edge of the road and rolled backwards into the Gmündbach stream. The fire department had to rescue the man.
At around 2.40 pm, the local man wanted to park his car in a driveway in the municipality of Gerlos (district of Schwaz). "For reasons as yet unknown, the vehicle overstepped the adjacent edge of the municipal road and plunged around two meters into a stream bed behind it," said the police. Bushes stopped the vehicle.
Man was flown to hospital
After the car was secured, the man was freed by the fire department. The driver was seriously injured in the crash and had to be flown to hospital in Schwaz by the Heli 4 emergency helicopter after receiving first aid. The car sustained considerable material damage.
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