A crane truck fell over the motorway bridge at the Villach-West motorway junction. The vehicle caught fire. The place is difficult to access and retrieving the handlebars was difficult.
The spectacular accident occurred on the Tauern Autobahn near Villach-West on Thursday morning, requiring a large contingent of emergency services. On the Salzburg road, a crane truck belonging to a recovery company veers off the road to the right, breaks through the railing and falls over the bridge. The vehicle catches fire. Firefighting and recovery work is difficult in steep terrain. There were also fears that the truck could slip further, all the way to the B100. “The driver has now been recovered and has been handed over to the emergency services,” said Harald Geissler, the commander of the Villach main fire station, which is on duty with numerous colleagues in other laboratories. “Hundreds of liters of hydraulic oil burned.”
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