Intoxicated driver ends up in stream in Styria
Friday 13th November 2026 on 07:15 in
Austria
A 31-year-old man was injured after his car left the road and came to rest in a stream in Heimschuh, in the Leibnitz district, on Thursday, ORF reported. Police said he was heavily intoxicated.
A witness spotted the smoking car in the Petzelsbach stream and alerted emergency services. The driver had been travelling from St. Nikolai im Sausal towards Petzels at about 4.45pm when, for an unknown reason, he veered off the road to the left, hit a road sign and stopped in the stream.
Firefighters removed the man from the car. He was taken by the Red Cross to Wagna Hospital with injuries of unspecified severity.
Fire brigades from St. Nikolai and Lang attended with 31 personnel and five vehicles and recovered the badly damaged car.