No emergency call possible
Off-road vehicle lands in stream: driver (71) rescued
Dramatic accident in the municipality of Eberstein in St. Veit an der Glan: a 71-year-old driver crashed his off-road vehicle around 40 meters and landed on his roof in the Mirnigbach stream. The pensioner had to wait over an hour until he was rescued.
It is still unclear why the driver from Germany lost control of his off-road vehicle between Mirnig and Hochfeistritz at around 9 p.m. and veered off the Interessentenweg. What is certain, however, is that the vehicle plunged around 40 meters in the wooded area and came to rest on its roof in the Mirnigbach stream below.
Although the 71-year-old managed to free himself from the wreck, he was unable to get help on his own: he had no cell phone connection. And so he had to wait until his worried wife, who was waiting at home, sent two friends. They finally discovered the scene of the accident shortly after 10 p.m. and set the rescue chain in motion.
Fire department arrived with rescue sledges
And so the Eberstein, Klein St. Paul and St. Walburgen fire departments arrived with a total of 40 people, rescued the 71-year-old from the scene of the accident by mountain sledge and handed him over to the emergency doctor, who had also already arrived. After first aid, the driver was transported to Klagenfurt Hospital by the ambulance with injuries of indeterminate severity.
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