Passenger dies and driver is seriously injured in Lower Austria crash

A 20-year-old passenger was killed and a 19-year-old driver seriously injured in a car crash in Großdietmanns, in Gmünd district, on Monday, ORF reported, citing police.

The car left the B41 in the village of Ehrendorf in the early hours, crossed an embankment and hit a concrete field entrance head-on.

Both occupants, who were from Waidhofen an der Thaya district, were trapped in the car and had to be freed by firefighters. The passenger died at the scene. The driver was flown by Christophorus 2 helicopter to University Hospital St Pölten with serious injuries.

The cause of the crash was not yet known.