Serious accident on New Year’s Eve in Hintertux in the Tyrolean Zillertal! A local taxi driver (66) came off a forest road and fell 100 meters. The Tyrolean who was thrown from the vehicle was seriously injured. Mountain rescue and fire brigade rushed to help.
The accident happened around 6:30 p.m. The 66-year-old took a taxi on a forest road in Hintertux that was used as a toboggan run. Suddenly he came off the road for an as yet unexplained cause and “fell about 100 meters into the forest”, say the police. During the crash, the handlebars were likely to have been thrown out of the vehicle. He sustained serious injuries. Flown to the clinic with “Alpin 5 “The 66-year-old was rescued by the mountain rescue and fire brigade, transported to the” Alpin 5 “helicopter base and flown from there to the Innsbruck clinic. The Tux mountain rescue team with eight emergency services, the Tux fire brigade with around 30 emergency services, employees of the Tux and Mayrhofen rescue services and three emergency doctors.
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