Pinzgau: Cars against Local Railway | Regionews.at

On 10. July 2018, at 19:45, he arrived at the Eisembahnkreuzung the local railway Pinzgauer in Zell am See, Wiesengütlweg, a traffic accident with considerable damage. A 27-year-old driver arrived in the area of ​​the railway crossing a vehicle that stopped in front of the crossing. In the hypothesis of this vehicle would stop to make way for crossing the crossing, led the 27-year-old without control over the railroad tracks.
At the same time, part of the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn came from the direction of Krimml. The engine driver sounded two beeps when the approach approached and reduced the speed by allowing it to detect vehicles near the crossing. Suddenly, there was a collision with the 27-year-old vehicle while she was driving restlessly on the track and she then collided with the car.
At the time of the accident, there were about five pbadengers, a driver and the engineer in the train, all of whom remained unscathed. The driver of the car was not injured by the collision. Significant damage was caused to the train set, the pbadenger car and a switch body. The railway line could be released the same evening. The train was ready to leave. The car had to be recovered by the Zell am See volunteer fire department, which was used with five vehicles and 35 men. An Alko pre-test by the driver of the vehicle and the driver was negative.

Source: LPD Salzburg