Driver's cab crushed
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A terrible accident kept the emergency services in Maria Neustift (Upper Austria) on their toes on Thursday night. An 18-year-old man crashed his tractor over an embankment into a stream bed. The driver was trapped in the vehicle and had to be freed by firefighters.
The young man had been driving his tractor on the wintery, slippery road in his home municipality of Maria Neustift shortly after midnight. Suddenly, the vehicle began to slide and crashed over a 50-metre-long slope, overturned and came to a halt lying on its roof.
Trapped for a long time
The driver was injured and trapped in the driver's cab, but was able to call the emergency services himself. However, the 18-year-old then had to hold out in enormous pain for around 40 minutes until he could finally be freed from his predicament.
Hydraulic rescue
This was a very challenging operation for the Sulzbach and Maria Neustift fire departments. However, with the help of two hydraulic rescue devices, they finally managed to lift the vehicle, which weighed several tons, enough to pull the injured man out of the crushed driver's cab.
The young man was first treated by a team of emergency doctors and then transported to the Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen Clinic in Steyr. He was extremely lucky, the injuries were not life-threatening.
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