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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.
For crashes that killed notable people, refer to List of people who died in traffic collisions. The prevalence of bus crashes in this list is a function of severity rather than of frequency. This list records crashes up to the year 1999. For later crashes see: List of traffic collisions (2000–present).
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 ...
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The crash caused a blood vessel in his chest to leak blood into the sac surrounding his heart. His death occurred several hours after the crash, from which he suffered no immediate apparent injuries. Duane Allman: 1946 1971 24 years American guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band: motorcycle Harley-Davidson Sportster: Macon, Georgia
A 15-year-old girl fell to her death while taking a selfie near a waterfall. [199] 22 July 2018 Australia: 1 0 Fall A 19-year-old American man fell to his death at Cape Solander in Kurnell near Sydney, Australia. [200] [201] 5 September 2018 United States: 1 0 Fall An Israeli teen fell to his death while trying to take a selfie at Yosemite ...
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 ...
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]