Boy Dead After Truck Accident in Tyrol

A seven-year-old died after an accident with a truck in Wörgl, Tyrol (Kufstein district) on the night of Friday. The child was hit and partially run over by the vehicle on Thursday morning. He was taken to the Innsbruck clinic and underwent emergency surgery, but succumbed to his severe injuries, a police spokesman told APA. Now, the 54-year-old truck driver is being investigated on suspicion of negligent homicide in road traffic.

Truck hit child in Tyrol

The accident occurred when the boy was on his way to school with another child. The two walked past the truck on the right, where loading activities had previously been carried out. The heavy vehicle started moving at low speed and hit the child. The 32-year-old German father of the boy provided first aid and called emergency services. The course of the accident is still under investigation, and an autopsy of the body has been ordered, it was said.

Not the first accident this week

The fatal accident is part of a series of tragic traffic accidents involving children that have occurred since the beginning of the week. On Monday, a six-year-old on a bike was hit by a train at an unguarded railway crossing in Eferding, Upper Austria, and died at the scene of the accident. Just three days later, another accident involving a six-year-old occurred in Ottensheim, Upper Austria (Urfahr-Umgebung district). The boy crossed an unguarded railway crossing with a light signal on his bicycle just as a locomotive was coming. The child died shortly afterwards in the hospital.

(APA/Red)

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