Children in the car

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The mother's car was completely destroyed.

(Bild: Werner Kerschbaummayr/TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / MARTIN SCHARINGER)

Accident drama in Upper Austria: A female driver (34) collided with a truck on a bend for unknown reasons. The woman from Linz was trapped and could only be freed from the wreckage after she had died. Her three children were also in the car.

A large contingent of emergency services - five fire departments, police, an emergency ambulance and the Christophorus 10 rescue helicopter - were deployed to the scene. A car and a truck collided on the B126 in the village of Unterstiftung between Zwettl an der Rodl and Bad Leonfelden at around 1.30 pm.

The mother's car overturned and came to rest on the verge. Members of the fire department who happened to be passing by were first responders and informed the emergency services.

The wreck was secured.

(Bild: Werner Kerschbaummayr/TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / MARTIN SCHARINGER)

Trapped in the car
The fire department had to free the seriously injured mother from the badly deformed vehicle. Three children (aged three, six and ten) were also in the woman's car, but according to initial information they were only slightly injured. They were taken to hospital in Linz.

The truck driver (49), from Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis, was uninjured, but suffered a severe shock and required medical care.

Stressful operation
The fire department's crisis intervention team (SVE) also arrived on the scene, because in particularly stressful incidents, the firefighters are looked after immediately on site.

The area was closed to traffic for three hours while the police investigated the cause of the accident. According to witnesses, the Linz woman, who was on her way home, was probably driving far too fast and crossed into the oncoming lane on a bend. Then the fatal collision ...