After the devastating gondola drama on Tuesday in the Tyrolean ski resort of Hochoetz, the mother of two accident victims described the dramatic scenes during and after the accident to the Danish media. Seriously injured, the daughter from the crashed gondola called her mother via Facetime.
A Danish family’s skiing holiday ended dramatically on Tuesday morning. A tree fell on the cable car and caused the gondola with the four Danes to fall about ten to twelve meters into the depths. They lay – two in the gondola, two outside in the snow – at the impassable scene of the accident for half an hour before help could arrive. Now Patricia T. spoke to the Danish media. She is the mother of the two adult children aged 19 and 20 who were injured in the accident and has now moved to Austria. The person who was most seriously affected in the accident was Patricia T.’s 49-year-old ex-husband, who had to undergo hours of surgery and was put into an artificial coma. His 46-year-old brother, 20-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter are also still in the hospital. Thrown from the gondola. The daughter was apparently the least seriously injured – she suffered an injury to her face and a fracture to her spine. She has already been able to speak to her mother on the phone several times and report on the accident. The 19-year-old told her mother that a tree had fallen – as the Austrian police had also reported – and hit the family’s gondola. The gondola then fell and crashed into the steep mountainside. The daughter’s 49-year-old father and 46-year-old uncle were thrown out through a window of the gondola and landed in the snow. The 19-year-old came to the gondola to lie on top of her brother, who was already unconscious at this point. Called her mother via Facetime. In a panic, she called for her father, but only her uncle answered from the cold snow. The father had apparently also lost consciousness during the accident. The seriously injured woman tried to search for help on her own using her cell phone on numerous Austrian websites and finally came across the number of a ski rental shop in the area. According to some information about the scene of the accident and the injured, the rescue workers arrived about half an hour after the accident. Meanwhile, mother Patricia T. received a Facetime call from her daughter. It was an absolute shock and horror moment for the mother, as she reported: “She contacted me via Facetime when her father – my ex-husband – had been picked up by the helicopter and she was waiting. At this point my son had also woken up a bit, so it was terrible to sit at home and not be able to do anything.” She has now arrived at the hospital with her children and can support them.
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