Dangerous incident early Monday evening in the Tyrolean Oberland: Above the Pitztal Landesstraße, a boulder broke loose in a steep section of forest, which then thundered down the valley onto the road! A post bus that was passing this spot at that moment was struck by the stone. The accident went smoothly.
The driver and passengers will probably not soon forget this trip with the Postbus. Shortly before 6 p.m., the driver was traveling by bus on the L16 Pitztalstraße from St. Leonhard in the direction of Wenns when a boulder suddenly broke loose on a steep forest embankment and rolled onto the road Stone hit in the front area and massively damaged,” the police reported. Lucky in misfortune: both the driver and the occupants escaped with a fright and were uninjured. The L16 had to be temporarily closed to all traffic in the area where the rockfall had occurred. “The area was then examined by experts from the road maintenance department, and several loose stones were removed,” the police continued. The roadblock was lifted around 7:40 p.m.
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