Large parts of Upper Styria are covered in snow. The consequences: roadblocks, many accidents, 70 people trapped in the Wildalpen area! The avalanche danger is extremely high. And on Friday even some schools are closed. No all-clear: the snowfall will continue overnight.
Romantics may speak of a “Winter Wonderland”, but the heavy snowfall that began on Thursday night is a great burden for the emergency services and residents of the affected regions. In the evening hours, the situation came to a head in some places. Children should not go to school In the Aflenzertal, the mayors of Aflenz, Hubert Lenger, and Thörl, Günther Wagner, have meanwhile called for children not to be sent to school on Fridays. In some places, roads must also be closed due to the danger of roof avalanches. The situation is also tense in the very north of Styria: in the Wildalpen area, 70 locals are cut off from the outside world because the roads are impassable due to the snow masses. Increased risk of avalanches Refreshing wind combined with the amounts of fresh snow, also increases the risk of avalanches: In the evening, the highest warning level of 5 was even declared for the Liezen district! The mountain rescuers will be on high alert for the next few days. Truck ban on the Alpl Chains are compulsory for all cars on Thursday evening in Straßegg, on the Teichalm, on the Rechberg and on the Schanz and Pfaffensattel. The Alpl is closed to trucks over 7.5 tons. Shortly before 9 p.m. it was also said that the Präbichl, where the lift operation had to be stopped during the day, was about to be closed. Schoolchildren crashed with their car Cars occupied by people crashed at Brucker Heuberg. The vehicle overturned and fell 30 meters into the forest. They were given first aid by the fire brigade paramedic and then taken to the LKH Bruck an der Mur for further clarification by the Red Cross. According to the fire brigade, the five students got off lightly. The highway was closed for hours, but there was chaos on the roads throughout the day: in the morning, for example, the A2 in the direction of Klagenfurt had to be closed at the height of the Packsattel because a truck skidded and came to a stop across the lanes. The freeway was free again around 12 noon. Due to an accident, traffic on the Phyrnautobahn (A9) was routed in the direction of Linz between Kammern and Mautern over the breakdown lane at midday. Important traffic arteries were already blocked in the morning traffic: it started on the Ennstal federal road (B320), where several hours trucks got stuck in the Schladming area and there were massive delays. On the B115 at 6.20 a.m. near Vordernberg, two small vans collided head-on on a snow-covered road. Four people were injured in the process. Truck chains are mandatory at the change But there were also enormous problems on the motorways in the early hours of the morning: on the A2 at 4.45 a.m. due to a sliding Slovakian truck near Schäffern, both lanes in the direction of Vienna were for around an hour blocked. In the transition section, the clearing vehicles had a lot of work until the early morning. Traffic jams only began to clear up around 8 a.m. Chains were compulsory for trucks over 3.5 tons in both directions in the early hours of the morning in the Pinggau to Grimmenstein area. This could only be ended at 8 a.m.Accident on the S6Around 4.30 a.m., the Kindberg fire brigade had to move out on the Semmering expressway (S6) after a driver with his car skidded and crashed into an impact absorber on the Mitterdorf exit in the direction of Vienna was and was injured.
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