Terrible outcome

Car crashes over embankment – Styrian dead

Mourning for a 22-year-old police trainee in Graz: he died in a motorcycle accident

(Bild: Scherbichler Wulf/Wulf Scherbichler)

Styria has been shocked by three fatal road accidents within a few hours. On Thursday, a motorcyclist (22) died in an accident in Graz-Wetzelsdorf, shortly afterwards two young people were killed in a car accident in Graz-Gösting. On Friday morning, a car driver (26) could no longer be saved after an accident near Fürstenfeld.

At around 1 p.m. on Thursday, the 22-year-old motorcyclist was traveling west on Peter-Rosegger-Straße in the Wetzelsdorf district of Graz. According to witnesses, the motorcyclist, a young off-duty police trainee, was driving at the permitted speed and suddenly lost control of his motorcycle. He then veered into the opposite lane, drove over a kerb onto the sidewalk and crashed into a street lamp.

Two other motorcyclists were on the road at the same time and immediately provided first aid. However, the emergency doctor was subsequently only able to determine that the 22-year-old had died. No other people were injured. The Styrian Police Department mourns the loss of its young colleague on Facebook.

The next accident a few hours later
At around 8.45 pm, the next serious crash occurred in the Styrian capital: a 19-year-old from the Graz-Umgebung district was driving his car together with two other people (both 19) on Judendorfer Straße towards the city center in the direction of Graz. For reasons as yet unknown, the driver probably lost control of the vehicle. As a result, the vehicle collided with a light pole located there.

The driver and co-driver sustained life-threatening injuries as a result of the collision. Several oncoming road users stopped and provided first aid. The two seriously injured people were successfully resuscitated beforehand, but ultimately died at Graz Regional Hospital.

The person in the back seat was taken to Graz University Hospital for further treatment with injuries of indeterminate severity.

Fourth fatality during the night
Finally, on Friday night, a 26-year-old Styrian had an accident in his car in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district and died at the scene of the accident. The man had crashed his car over a steep embankment. Although seriously injured, he was able to free himself from the wreck, but then succumbed to his injuries. Multiple resuscitation attempts by the emergency doctor alerted by witnesses were ineffective, according to the Styrian Provincial Police Directorate.

The driver from the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district was driving on the B319 from Ilz towards Großwilfersdorf at around 1.30 am. For unknown reasons, he left the road on the right near Hainfeld, broke through the guardrail and fell several meters over the steep embankment there.