88 years old died from a frontal collision with trucks

88 years old died from a frontal collision with trucks

Krottendorf. An 88-year-old driver died Monday in a head-on collision with a truck in western Styria.

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The senior had come for unknown reasons in the opposite direction. He died before the arrival of rescue forces at the scene of the accident, said the Landespolizeidirektion Styria.

The 48-year-old truck driver from the Leibnitz district drove shortly before 09.30 on the Voitsberg Packer Strbade (B70) in Graz. In Krottendorf-Gaisfeld, he suddenly met 88-year-old Voitsberger's car. A collision could not be prevented. As the car was projected onto the street, the heavy vehicle touched a guardrail and then plunged into the embankment. For the driver, there was no rescue, the driver of the truck was slightly injured foot. The B70 was closed for three and a half hours for all traffic.

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