A terrible accident occurred on Friday morning in a ski area in Schwendau in the Tyrolean Zillertal: a chair on a chairlift suddenly came loose and crashed into a second gondola. A mother and her eleven-year-old child then fell around ten meters into the depths and were injured, some of them seriously.
The terrible accident occurred on the public holiday around 9:30 a.m. at the Lärchwald four-seater chairlift in the municipality of Schwendau in the Zillertal. As the police confirmed, a family of three from Austria – father, mother and an eleven-year-old child – were taking the lift up when suddenly Something must have gone completely wrong: At the height of support five, the chair apparently suddenly detached itself from the fixed anchoring on the rope and slid backwards down again until it crashed into the empty chair behind it. 38-year-old seriously injured in the back due to the force of the collision The mother (38) and her child were thrown out of the chair and fell into the depths. After around eight to ten meters both hit a snow-covered steep slope. While the child, according to initial information, suffered minor injuries, the 38-year-old winter sports athlete was seriously injured in the pelvis and back area. The father, who managed to cling to the chair, is also believed to have escaped with relatively minor injuries. All three family members were flown to the hospital by rescue helicopter. Investigations started According to initial information, the four-seater chairlift was empty. Now operations have stopped for the time being, the police and the cable car authorities are investigating.
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