Distracted by a cat: Mühlviertlerin caused an accident with three injuries

2023-05-30 18:59:00

The accident happened around 4:30 p.m. near the town of Glasau: In a brief moment of inattention, a 23-year-old car driver got onto the oncoming lane on the L1498 and collided head-on with the car of a 24-year-old from the Rohrbach district.

The woman who caused the accident later told the police that she was distracted by the cat that her passenger (52) had in a box on her lap. All three women were so badly injured in the accident that they had to be taken to the UKH in Linz.

This was not the only traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon in the district of Urfahr: Just over an hour earlier, a 54-year-old woman from Linz had an accident on the B126 in the municipality of Sonnberg im Mühlkreis.

The car crashed through a fence and came to a stop near a residential building.
Image: FF Zwettl on the Rodl

The woman lost control of her car near the village of Rudersbach and left the roadway. Her car drove 70 meters over a slope and came to rest on the side of a residential building.

The woman was treated by the emergency doctor and then taken to the Kepler University Hospital, the police said in the evening. The Zwettl an der Rodl volunteer fire brigade arrived for the clean-up work.