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Brenner Autobahn near Innsbruck. The Austrian autobahns are controlled-access highways in Austria.They are officially called Bundesstraßen A (Bundesautobahnen) under the authority of the Federal Government according to the Austrian Federal Road Act (Bundesstraßengesetz), [1] not to be confused with the former Bundesstraßen highways maintained by the Austrian states since 2002.
The first autobahn in Austria was the West Autobahn from Wals near Salzburg to Vienna. Building started by command of Adolf Hitler shortly after the Anschluss in 1938. It extended the Reichsautobahn 26 from Munich (the present-day A 8 ), however only 16.8 km (10.4 mi) including the branch-off of the planned Tauern Autobahn was opened to the ...
May 29 – Austria – 12 people were killed and 50 were injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel. June 6 – Kenya – At least eight people died after a bus burst a tyre and overturned in Naivasha on the main Nairobi to Nakuru highway. In another crash 12 were killed when a bus collided with another vehicle. [196]
A bus coach traveling through Austria on Tuesday went off the road and crashed on its side, killing a woman and injuring 20 other passengers, Austria's APA agency reported. The accident took place ...
The West Autobahn (A1) was the first motorway to be built in Austria, originating from plans drawn up for the so-called Reichsautobahn system. Completed in 1967, today it runs from the outskirts of Vienna via Linz to Salzburg, where it joins the German Bundesautobahn 8 at the Walserberg border crossing.
A4 Ost Autobahn. On 27 August 2015, [1] the bodies of 71 illegal immigrants were discovered in a lorry on the Ost Autobahn in Burgenland, Austria. [2] The victims were part of the wave of many thousands of migrants who traveled through the western Balkans in an effort to reach Germany. The borders were opened shortly afterward to allow the ...
Eleven people were injured when a Bulgarian cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau overnight, local police ...
A second inaugural ceremony for the first autobahn construction on formerly Austrian soil took place on 7 April 1938, with Hitler shoveling dirt into a decorated dumpster near Salzburg, and on 1 December 1938, Rudolf Hess broke ground at Eger for a projected "transit autobahn" from Breslau to Vienna via Brünn . [35]