Four injured after car hits road service vehicle on A2
Tuesday 20th October 2026 on 21:30 in
Austria
A car collided with a road service vehicle on the A2 near Ligist in the Voitsberg district, injuring four people, ORF reported. The motorway was closed towards Vienna for about an hour.
At about 1 p.m., an 18-year-old Italian from Carinthia was driving towards Vienna with his 53-year-old mother when the car skidded and struck an ASFINAG vehicle parked on the hard shoulder.
The driver and two ASFINAG employees suffered minor injuries and were taken by the Red Cross to the hospital in Graz. The woman sustained injuries of undetermined severity and was flown there by the Christophorus 17 rescue helicopter.
Firefighters from Ligist and Steinberg also attended. Alcohol tests were negative. The cause of the crash is under investigation.