Based on the police, the motive force’s visibility was so restricted by the heavy rain that he seen the 35-year-old on the pedestrian crossing too late. The accident sufferer was thrown onto the highway and broke the pinnacle of his left tibia, the police reported in a press launch.
The accident occurred at round 10.30 p.m. on the pedestrian crossing on Gaisbergstrasse close to the Borromäum. The ambulance took the injured 35-year-old to the Salzburg College Hospital. A breathalyzer check on each events was detrimental (0.0 per mille).
The extreme storms meant quite a few operations, particularly for the emergency providers in Pfarrwerfen within the St. Johann im Pongau district, because the state hearth brigade command introduced. From 7 p.m. till midnight, fallen bushes and flooded cellars made for busy nights. A window was damaged in a home on a hillside and the cellar was flooded. Within the city, the firefighters dammed the overflowing channels and streams with sandbags.
