50 meters deep
Worker fell from highway bridge with crane
A particularly horrific incident occurred on Friday morning in Liesertal in Carinthia: A crane operator and his vehicle plunged off a highway and died.
Tragic scenes unfolded at around 9.30 a.m. on Friday on the A10 Tauernautobahn in Liesertal, Carinthia. A crane and its driver fell 50 meters from the freeway bridge during work in the direction of Villach and landed in a stream bed between Trebesing and Seeboden.
"The man was working with a crane vehicle on the construction site during lifting work. For unknown reasons, the vehicle tipped over and crashed," said the police.
Several fire departments from the Upper Carinthia region immediately rushed to help, but all help came too late for the 56-year-old from Spittal. The cause of the accident is now being investigated.
The bridge construction site is considered one of the most exciting in Austria - because the 600-metre-long and 6,500-tonne bridge was recently raised by a total of six meters using a spectacular and unique method. The "Krone" visited the construction site in February.
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