2024-09-21 06:30:49
A 71-year-old farmer died in an accident with his tractor on Friday afternoon in Hippach in the Tyrolean Zillertal (Schwaz district). The man fell from a meadow onto a 35-degree slope, from which he could no longer drive the motor cart back onto the track and eventually, overturning, fell 41 meters down the valley. The farmer ended up lying beneath the tractor and died at the scene of the accident.
According to police in the Laimach district, the 71-year-old had previously driven the vehicle, which was loaded with manure, from the farm property onto the adjacent field and then down the valley. At a very steep point, he turned the tractor around in order to reverse further down the field path. In doing so, he apparently had to steer the cart to the left and the front axle hit the steep slope, which led to the fatal fall. An emergency medical helicopter, an emergency medical team, an ambulance, ten men from the Laimach fire department and eight mountain rescuers from Zell am Ziller were on duty.
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