The 31-year-old has driven countless times across the tracks of the Attergaubahn in his home town of St. Georgen im Attergau in Upper Austria. Nothing ever happened. Until now.
The red light at the railroad crossing was on. However, the 31-year-old, who had run over the tracks many times before, may have simply overlooked it. The 41-year-old railcar driver from Attersee could do nothing more. It came to a collision. Train jumped off the tracks The local train, in which six passengers were, jumped off the tracks. The car was thrown to the side. All occupants and the chauffeur remained unharmed on the train, but the driver suffered serious injuries, so that he had to be flown to the Vöcklabruck hospital by rescue helicopter “Martin 3”. The scene of the accident was reopened two hours later.
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