RSOE EDIS: Austria - Vehicle Accident - 2010.02.22

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2010-02-22 05:51:05 - Vehicle Accident - Austria EDIS CODE: VI-20100222-25023-AUT Date & Time: 2010-02-22 05:51:05 [UTC] Area: Austria, Capital City, A21 motorway, Wien Number of death person(s): 6 Number of Injured person(s): 20 Damage level: Heavy (Level 3) Affected Foreign Citizen(s)! Not confirmed information! Description: Six people died and around 20 were injured in an accident involving a German bus and two lorries on Sunday night near Vienna. The police said the accident happened when the bus hit one of the lorries on the A21 motorway. Officers refused say where the victims were from as the investigation was ongoing. The accident took place on an icy road at around midnight roughly 1 kilometre from Heiligenkreuz, the regional headquarters of the emergency services said. Initial reports said the two lorries - one from Romania, the other from Slovakia - were driving behind one another when the bus with 38 people on board crashed into one of them. Four of the dead were bus passengers, according to unconfirmed reports. Posted:2010-02-22 05:51:05 [UTC] Please DO NOT reply to this message: replies may be treated as errors and result in your subscription being deleted. If you have trouble or other queries, send email to havaria@rsoe.hu RSOE EDIS is operated by the National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), Budapest, Hungary. Because of the complexity of this system and its dependence on other systems, we cannot be responsible for delays or failures in forwarding or transmission. You're receiving this AlertMail because you subscribed for the service. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Contact: havaria@rsoe.hu