The Vösendorf tunnel in the course of the Vienna Outer Ring Expressway (S1) will be closed overnight on Sunday due to an operational exercise. According to Asfinag information from Thursday, both lanes are affected from Saturday 9:30 p.m. to Sunday 5 a.m. According to the broadcast, a diversion leads via the Vienna Southeast Tangente (A23) or the Ostautobahn (A4).
seriousness of an accident
The “emergency of an accident” is practiced, around 80 emergency services will be involved. Asfinag emphasized that in the tunnel, which is more than 500 meters long, large-scale exercises with all emergency organizations must take place at intervals of no more than four years. The goal behind this is for the helpers to know about the access options and the equipment in the tunnel systems should the worst come to the worst.