There are pictures that should make you think: Last Saturday, a fatal accident happened on the A8 near Ort im Innkreis in Upper Austria, but the arrival of the emergency services was delayed by several minutes due to the non-existent rescue lane. The fire brigade denounces this now.
In accidents, seconds often make the difference between life and death – and so that the emergency services can get to the scene of the accident as quickly as possible, it is mandatory for drivers to create a rescue lane. That didn’t work at all last Saturday on the A8 near Ort im Innkreis.Video shows dramaIn a video by the local fire brigade (see also link below) you can feel the drama of the misbehavior of the drivers: the siren of the emergency vehicle echoes over the motorway, the car is hectic, in front of the car one of the firefighters runs back and forth on the street and asks the drivers to make room. All of this takes a long time, valuable seconds pass. “How it doesn’t work” The volunteer fire brigade Ort im Innkreis shared the video on Facebook with the words: “Rescue lane, how it doesn’t work. During yesterday’s operation on the A8 motorway, the arrival of the emergency services was delayed by several minutes due to the lack of an emergency lane. One of those involved died at the scene of the accident. According to police investigations, the car of a German couple (69 and 77 years old) is said to have driven through a closed parking lot next to the motorway, lifted off at a concrete crash barrier and then crashed head-on into a tree. The man should have died immediately may have been, his wife was seriously injured, was able to free herself and crawl to the emergency lane. The obligation does not only exist after accidents, but also, for example, in the case of daily overload traffic jams. The woman also died from serious injuries There, another driver discovered the seriously injured woman and immediately called the emergency services – but some of them got stuck in the rescue lane. The terrible end of the story: The injured woman later died in the hospital. These penalties threaten If a rescue lane is not formed or driven illegally, a fine of up to 726 euros can be imposed. If this behavior leads to an obstruction of emergency or breakdown service vehicles, hearses or vehicles of the road service, the penalty for these administrative offenses is between 72 and 2180 euros.
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