Update: Reason for accident

A guardian angel flew next to this noise barrier

The car was totally demolished in the accident in Bad Ischl(Bild: FF Bad Ischl)

It is now clear why there was such a crash in Bad Ischl (Upper Austria) last night: The driver (32) who miraculously escaped injury in a spectacular accident had a blood alcohol level of 2.36. His car had broken through a noise barrier and been badly demolished.

"I've had about eight half beers since midday," the drunk driver calculated to the police officers who recorded the accident at 2 a.m. The calculation of 2.36 per mille doesn't quite add up, but at least that was his justification, while the helpers from the Rettenbach fire brigade and the main police station in Bad Ischl, paramedics from the Red Cross and police officers carried out their duties at the scene of the accident in the freezing cold.

The car involved in the accident had to be recovered by crane.(Bild: FF Bad Ischl)

Element was torn from its anchoring
The 32-year-old from St. Gilgen had hit the crash barrier in a bend on the B 145 and crashed into the noise barrier. After the vehicle came to a standstill on the opposite side of the road after around 200 meters with severe damage, "the road looked like a field of debris", as the firefighters reported.

Metal parts were stuck in the noise barrier and an element of the wall was literally ripped out of its anchoring. Miraculously, the driver was virtually uninjured in the serious collision.

An element of the noise barrier was torn out.(Bild: FF Bad Ischl)

The helpers had to clean the road of fuel and oil and recover the wrecked car, which was then taken away by a towing company.