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A head-on collision between two motorcyclists on Eferdinger Straße (B129) in Waizenkirchen (Grieskirchen district) resulted in two deaths yesterday afternoon.
Christian S. (53), 53, from Traun (Linz-Land district) was on his motorcycle heading to Peuerbach. Around 4:10 p.m., he attempted to overtake a truck with a trailer in front of him in the Oberviehbach area. The 53-year-old man may have overlooked the impending 30-year-old Bernhard G. from Schlüßlberg (Grieskirchen district), who was also on a motorcycle. The two men collided head-on with their two-wheeled vehicles and suffered injuries so severe that they died at the scene of the accident.
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“When we arrived, we saw a motorcycle in the field. Then there was a motorcycle under a trailer of a burning truck. The police and rescue team were already at the scene,” said Georg Sandberger, department operations manager. firemen’s. Unterheuberg. Both motorcycles were completely burned.
Four fire departments, emergency services, an emergency doctor and an emergency helicopter, as well as the police, were in large-scale operations. Eferdinger Straße (B129) had to be closed to traffic for approximately two and a half hours.
Third dead since Thursday
It was only on Thursday, as reported, that a 57-year-old motorcyclist from Oberkappel (Rohrbach district) died in an attempt to overtake in Waldkirchen am Wesen (Schärding district). This means that three motorcyclists died in traffic accidents in Upper Austria in 24 hours. (jsz)
