Late on Saturday, a coach from Germany had an accident in Austria, and a young man died. A day later, the circumstances of the tragic accident become known: 32 men who were sitting on the bus celebrated a bachelor party. The dead man is the groom.
After the serious bus accident in Austria with one dead and many injured, the identity of the fatality has been clarified. It is a young man from the Bavarian district of Rottal-Inn. Particularly tragic: the 31-year-old died shortly before his wedding, during his own bachelor party. He and friends went on a toboggan trip to Schladming, around 100 kilometers south-east of Salzburg. According to the Red Cross, the 51-year-old driver was also particularly seriously injured in the accident late on Saturday evening, four other occupants were seriously injured and 26 were slightly injured.
There were a total of 32 men on the bus. The dead man and some other men came from the small town of Triftern, as its mayor Edith Lirsch explained. She should have married the young couple soon, she told Bayerischer Rundfunk: "It is extremely tragic when a young person is taken out of life like this. The whole town of Triftern, where everyone knows everyone else, is shaken".
"The bus left the road at the last bend in the direction of Schladming, rolled over several times and then came to rest on a workshop building," said fire brigade operations manager Gerald Petter. The bus lay on the left, partly on top of a vintage truck that the workshop owner had draped on the roof.
The survivors were lucky in the misfortune: directly behind them was a bus with firefighters who jumped in immediately as first aiders. In addition, the Red Cross and fire brigade bases were not far away, so that a large contingent of more than 160 rescue workers was deployed within ten minutes. The 25 paramedics were supported by an emergency doctor and eight general practitioners.
The injured were taken to various hospitals. The crashed coach was recovered early in the morning with a truck-mounted crane. The state road was closed for the rescue work. The public prosecutor ordered the wreck to be secured; an expert is to draw up an expert opinion.
