Driver, 20, dies after being thrown from car in crash
Sunday 8th November 2026 on 09:30 in
Austria
A 20-year-old driver died after his car left the road and struck a bridge railing in St. Martin im Sulmtal, in the Deutschlandsberg district, on Saturday evening, ORF reported.
The man was travelling towards Gleinstätten on the Sulmtalstraße (B74) at about 11 p.m. when he left the road in a bend shortly before the village of Graschach. The cause is unknown.
His car mounted a concrete divider and hit the bridge railing. According to police, the force of the impact broke the seat belt, throwing him from the vehicle. The badly damaged car came to a stop in the adjacent stream bed, with the driver lying in front of the wreck.
A passer-by pulled the seriously injured man to the bank and tried to help. Emergency crews performed resuscitation, but he died at the scene.