Children in mortal danger

Only a few meters away from a catastrophe

The car crashed into a meadow just a few meters from the company premises, where the children were playing.(Bild: Pressefoto Scharinger/Daniel Scharinger)

An Innviertel family was extremely lucky. A van left a snow-covered road and missed three playing children by a hair's breadth. The 18-year-old driver is said to have only had summer tires on and still tried to overtake two vehicles.

Rupert Pammer (54) inspects the damage to the mighty willow in front of his company in St. Georgen am Fillmannsbach in Upper Austria. He shakes his head with concern, then takes his wife Manuela (47) in his arms and lovingly hugs his three children Quentin (6), Jakob (13) and Ronja (15).