It is noteworthy that heavy snowfall in January is perceived as something special. However, the emergency services in Lower Austria had no other choice at the weekend, the alarm bells rang in chords on both days.
On Saturday morning alone, the fire brigade and rescue services were called to 16 serious traffic accidents, in which a total of two people were seriously injured and 18 others were slightly injured. In St. Georgen am Reith in the district of Amstetten, a driver died after a head-on collision with another car – as reported. Series of accidents continued on Sunday Persistent precipitation and icy roads also caused a large number of rescue operations on Sunday. In Sitzendorf an der Schmida, a car left the road and had to be pulled out of the field, to name just one case. The Florianis faced similar scenarios in Eichgraben in the Vienna Woods or along the S3 near Hollabrunn, where a vehicle had even rolled over. In the Waldviertel municipality of Schwarzenau, however, a truck from Lithuania got stuck, and in Ernstbrunn in the Korneuburg district, a bus got stuck during a turning manoeuvre unpaved ground and sank. It also had to be refloated by the fire brigade. Yesterday, however, there was also criticism from many drivers – not of the helpers and rescuers, of course, but of the lack of snow clearance. In the Scheibenhof district of Krems, for example, there has not only been no mobile phone reception in places, but there has also been no salt spreading on the state road that runs through the community for years Unfortunately, the snow plow only very rarely drives through the village,” it says. The situation was not much better on the autobahn either: those who had to take the A21 to Vienna had to deal with snowy roads all day. Ski tourism, which recently suffered from a lack of snow, is delighted – and of course our young people, who were finally able to romp through the snow again. Unfortunately, it happens seldom enough anyway. . .
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