Spectacular breakdown

Rumble! Truck cleared petrol station roof with loading crane

The green truck crashed into the petrol station roof with the loading crane extended - causing it to collapse to the ground.(Bild: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / WERNER KERSCHBAUMMAYR)

Spectacular accident at the Steyr municipal services: The truck driver had forgotten to retract the loading crane. First he hit the flat roof, then the supporting structure gave way and crashed onto the filling station. Miraculously, no one was injured in the incident.

"The employees immediately came to my office and said that our petrol station had collapsed," says Markus Rechling-Greimel, Managing Director of Stadtbetriebe Steyr. The Steyr fire brigade was alerted at 9.51 a.m. because a municipal services truck with an extended loading crane had driven into the petrol station on the Stadtbetriebe site in Ennser Straße.

Fortunately, no one was injured
With fatal consequences: "The impact caused the petrol station roofing to shift. This made the supporting structure unstable and it collapsed over the actual petrol station," says Rechling-Greimel: "It was extremely fortunate that no one was injured. Not even the people in the truck. And fortunately nobody was sitting in the bus stop, which is right next to it and whose glass roofing was shattered."

(Bild: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / WERNER KERSCHBAUMMAYR)

(Bild: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / WERNER KERSCHBAUMMAYR)

Desolate roof lifted off
On Monday afternoon, the desolate roof was lifted off the petrol station and checked to see if any of the pumps were still intact. Public buses and municipal vehicles are usually refueled with diesel at the municipal filling station. In Steyr, the municipal and municipal operations have been managed separately since 2012.

Markus Rechling-Greimel was appointed as the new managing director in May. Stadtbetriebe Steyr (SBS) currently has 150 employees - and probably only one topic of conversation at the moment.