A4 Closed After Accident Involving Three Vehicles

In a pile-up involving three vehicles, two children were injured on the East Motorway (A4) near Schwechat (Bruck a. d. Leitha district) on Monday evening.

Two Children Injured in Pile-Up on A4 in Lower Austria

According to police reports on Tuesday, the eight and twelve-year-olds were transported by ambulance to the University Hospital Wiener Neustadt. Two lanes of the A4 were closed towards Hungary for more than an hour. There was a traffic jam for several kilometres.

The two children were travelling in a car registered in Germany driven by a 30-year-old Romanian woman. The woman, along with her eight-year-old daughter and twelve-year-old niece, ended up with injuries at the Wiener Neustadt Hospital.

No Seatbelt: 25-Year-Old Suffers Severe Head Injuries in Accident

A 25-year-old Slovakian citizen, who was not wearing a seatbelt and was a passenger in a small truck also involved in the accident, suffered significant head injuries. An emergency helicopter flew the man to the Baden State Hospital.

The pile-up may have been triggered because the 30-year-old car driver was driving slowly and had observed an accident on the opposite lane.

(APA/Red)

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