2023-08-05 07:51:00
According to the ÖAMTC, there were already extensive obstructions on the transit routes in the early hours of the morning on Saturday. It rained heavily in large parts of Austria, and accidents resulted in traffic jams stretching for kilometers, for example in Salzburg on the Tauernautobahn (A10) and in Lower Austria on the Vienna Outer Ring Expressway (S1).
Columns on A10 and A1
Accidents occurred shortly following 6:00 a.m. on the Tauernautobahn in the Hiefler tunnel near Golling and in the Helfersberg tunnel near Pfarrwerfen in busy travel traffic heading south. Both tunnels had to be closed for the rescue work, and according to the ÖAMTC, the traffic jams stretched back more than ten kilometers to Bad Vigaun. Although the accident sites were cleared following just over an hour, the traffic experts assumed that the traffic jams would only dissolve very slowly. Because many more travelers came from Germany, before the Walserberg border crossing (A1) the columns were regarding eight kilometers behind.
14 km traffic jam in front of the Karawanken Tunnel
In Carinthia, the traffic jam in front of the Karawanken tunnel (A11) was around 14 kilometers long early in the morning. On the Slovenian side, according to information from the ÖAMTC, the motorway was also closed at around 7 a.m. following an accident.
ÖAMTC: Stay on the Autobahn!
The club appealed to travelers to stay on the motorways even if there were traffic delays, as numerous roads in the subordinate network were still closed due to flooding or debris accumulation, especially in southern Austria. In the Carinthian districts of Völkermarkt and Wolfsberg, the smaller border crossings to Slovenia were still impassable. In Slovenia itself, the A1 between Ljubljana and Celje was still closed. A number of secondary roads were also blocked, such as the direct detour route of the blocked A1 sections (R2-447). This also had to be closed in several sections due to flooding between Grajska Vas and Žalec. According to the ÖAMTC, evasion was possible over a large area via motorways.
On the southern autobahn (A2), travelers in the direction of Vienna between the Packsattel and Modriach and in front of the Assingberg tunnel made very slow progress, also due to accidents here. In Lower Austria, the Wiener Außenring-Schnellstraße (S1) was blocked for around two hours in the direction of Schwechat following an accident involving three vehicles, and the traffic jam temporarily extended back to the Vösendorf junction on the A21.
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