Two dead in accident
Driver and passenger burnt to death in electric car
Horrific crash on Sunday in Upper Austria! Particularly tragic: the driver was 18, the passenger only 17 years old. They had crashed an electric car into a tree. The car started to burn and the two occupants died in the flames. There were also serious accidents with fatalities and injuries in Burgenland, Tyrol and Lower Austria.
The accident with serious consequences happened on Sunday night on Uttenthaler Straße in the municipality of Buchkirchen. According to the evidence, a car coming from Wallern an der Trattnach left the road, crashed head-on into a fruit tree and then skidded into a cornfield opposite. The vehicle then burst into flames.
Worst fears realized
The emergency services of the Buchkirchen and Mistelbach fire departments were initially alerted at 1.59 a.m. to a fire with an unclear location after a fire was reported from some distance away. When they arrived at the scene, they found a car that was fully engulfed in flames and had obviously been involved in an accident. The emergency services already feared the worst: they then discovered two burnt people in the burnt-out wreckage.
What was particularly tragic was that the two victims were teenagers. The driver was an 18-year-old Lower Austrian from Perchtoldsdorf, the 17-year-old passenger was from Krenglbach.
Started to burn again and again
After initial forensics by the police, the recovery of the victims from the wreckage began. The car with electric drive also began to burn repeatedly during the recovery of the accident victims, and the emergency services had to repeatedly extinguish the fire. Once the accident victims had been rescued, the vehicle was examined more closely and the assumption that it was an electric car was confirmed.
Wreck monitored in quarantine
The fire departments were only able to return shortly after 6 o'clock in the morning. A towing company with a special tub for electric cars was requested and loaded into the transport tub. The recovered accident wreck must now be kept in a quarantine container for electric vehicle fires, which is equipped with numerous monitoring devices, for at least the next 96 hours.
Uttenthaler Straße was closed for around three and a half hours. The fire department diverted the traffic.
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