Pursuit in Carinthia Ends Fatally: Wrong-Way Driver Dies in Crash

As the police announced on Thursday, the incidents already occurred on Sunday evening - after a traffic check - in Kolbnitz (district of Spittal an der Drau). The obviously intoxicated driver of a small truck refused a breathalyzer test and fled from the police in his vehicle. After driving as a wrong-way driver, the man crashed fatally.

Wrong-way driver in Carinthia crashed fatally

The officers pursued the fugitive on the Mölltal Road (B106). The 40-year-old drove at a greatly excessive speed and ignored the attempt to stop by another police patrol in the municipality of Lurnfeld. In the Pusarnitz area, the small truck was overtaken by a patrol, but the 40-year-old drove to the left over a traffic island onto the opposite lane and subsequently onto the highway as a wrong-way driver heading towards Seeboden.

Over a distance of 1.5 kilometers, the man raced at a speed of 180 km/h, endangering three oncoming vehicles. These were able to swerve onto the hard shoulder in time, and one car grazed the guardrail. In the area of the Seeboden highway exit and the intersection with Millstätter Road (B98), the fugitive then crashed into a stone wall. The 40-year-old was fatally injured by the impact.

(APA/Red)

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