Was not wearing a seatbelt

One driver dead after serious truck accident

The driver died at the scene of the accident.

A serious truck accident on the B309 near Kronstorf (Upper Austria) claimed one life. The car ended up in the ditch after the violent collision, the truck remained on the road. The driver, a 37-year-old Finn from Lower Austria, died at the scene of the accident.

The horrific images after the accident on the B 309 only give an idea of the force with which a car and an oncoming truck almost collided head-on on Tuesday morning.

First responders tried everything
The driver of a green Hyundai, a 37-year-old Finn from the Amstetten district, was catapulted over a fence into the adjacent embankment. "When we arrived at the scene of the accident, drivers following behind were already taking care of the driver of the car, who was lying next to his vehicle," explains Harald Grobner, head of operations for the Hargelsberg fire brigade. However, it soon became clear that all the help was too late for the driver. The man succumbed to his serious injuries at the scene of the accident. He was not wearing a seatbelt.

Truck driver in shock
The truck driver, a 27-year-old Pole, remained physically unharmed but suffered a shock. It is still unclear how the accident could have happened. There are always very serious accidents on the B 309. Especially in the first few years of the new road, the helpers were regularly called upon. "The fixed radar points help, however, so that the number of accidents has decreased," says Thomas Huber, Vice Commander of the Kronstorf volunteer fire department.