In an accident with a chairlift, a Bavarian holidaymaker in Austria fell four meters and was seriously injured. As the police announced, the 65-year-old from Munich was driving down the valley on Friday with a companion on the Andelsbuch mountain railway in the state of Vorarlberg when the double chair broke from the rope. The chair slipped off the suspension cable and crashed into the chair underneath, on which two other passengers were sitting. The impact caused the man to slip under the safety bar. With the help of another passenger, he was able to hold out for a few minutes, according to the police. Then he fell down a steep meadow, slid another four meters down an embankment and landed on a farm track.
The seriously injured come from Munich, said a police spokesman on Saturday. The other three participants are also German. Two of them were slightly injured. The police did not provide any information on their exact origin. The 65-year-old was flown to a hospital in neighboring Switzerland by helicopter. The operation of the cable car has been suspended until further notice. It is still unclear why the chair slipped.
In the Austrian state of Tyrol there was another accident on a lift on Friday, in which a German was injured. The 75-year-old from the district of Hanover drove up the Wilder Kaiser near Going with her granddaughter. Just before arrival she opened the safety bar. She lost her balance and fell about 1.5 meters onto a concrete floor. She suffered serious facial injuries.