A guided hike and adventure experience on a zip line ended for four young people with injuries, some of them serious. Two of the accident victims were flown to Wels and Linz with the rescue helicopter. According to the police, the steel slide in the so-called Hexenkessel via ferrata was probably overloaded.
Four injured young vacationers – that is the result of an alpine accident with a zip line, a “Flying Fox”, in the via ferrata in the Höllgraben in Rosenau on the Hengstpass. The youth group from Lower Austria was traveling with two companions and used the rope slides – there are a total of ten on the trail, which are up to 180 meters long – several times. And the teenagers were repeatedly warned that no more than three people were allowed to hang on the rope. But the warnings went unheeded. The exact course of the accident is not entirely clear, but at 12.40 two 16-year-old boys and two 15-year-old girls – from Amstetten, Melk and Scheibbs – were hanging in the roller system, collided and are said to have touched a wooden bridge In any case, four members of the youth group from Lower Austria were taken to hospitals in Linz, Wels and Kirchdorf: A girl (15) was seriously injured and flown to the hospital in Kirchdorf, a boy (16) – he too had suffered massive injuries – to Linz. Another 16-year-old suffered a minor hand injury, and another 15-year-old girl was taken to the Kirchdorf hospital by ambulance. “We arrived almost at the same time as the ‘Martin 3’ rescue helicopter. Then came the ‘C 10’. The flight emergency doctor, an emergency doctor from our local office and a doctor who happened to be present took over the first aid,” says Thomas Riesenhuber from the Windischgarsten Mountain Rescue Service. This was in action with eleven helpers.
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