| 词条 | 1999 Deutschlandsberg bus crash |
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On 24 January 1999, a bus carrying Hungarian teenagers on a skiing holiday went off the road in the mountains near Deutschlandsberg in Styria, Austria. 18 people were killed and 32 injured. AccidentThe bus was carrying 45 people, primarily teenagers aged between 15 and 18 from two schools in Kőszeg; they were returning to their lodgings at the castle in Limberg at the end of the first day of a weeklong skiing holiday. At about 4.45 p.m., on a steep downward slope, the driver found himself unable to brake the bus. He collided with barriers on the left side of the road, but guided the bus around two curves, overtaking other vehicles; however, on the third curve at a point between Deutschlandsberg and Trahütten, at a speed of about {{convert|100|kph|mph}} as recorded on the tachograph, the bus left the road, went through an embankment, and after approximately {{convert|15|m|ft}} collided with the opposite slope below a farmhouse, overturned once or twice, and came to rest upside down against a tree; its fall was observed by the house's owner through the kitchen window. 18 people were killed and 32 injured, 17 seriously.[1][2][3][4][5] AftermathEmergency services reached the accident site quickly because they had been at a minor accident a short distance away; some parents were also following the bus in a car, including a physician who when she began to render aid, found her own daughter's body.[4] The injured were treated at hospitals in Deutschlandsberg and Graz;[2] the dead were all identified within three days.[4] The accident coincided with a summit meeting of the heads of state of Austria, Hungary and Slovakia; the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, planned to visit the injured.[4] Hungary declared a national day of mourning on 31 January.[6] The road at the time was not snowy or icy.[2] Investigation of the accident showed that the Neoplan bus was twenty years old and had a high mileage. There were no brake marks on the road, and it was concluded that despite having been tested and passed a few months before, the brakes had failed.[1][7] However, the driver, who had been one of those seriously injured in the crash, was found responsible for putting the bus into the wrong gear, which made it impossible for him to use the engine to brake, although he was trying with both hands to shift gears. He was sentenced by a court in Graz to three years in prison for reckless endangerment, but released after 15 months, and returned home to Szombathely, where he died in August 2001.[7][8] The accident location is marked with a cross. A memorial service was held in Deutschlandsberg to mark the fifteenth anniversary in 2014.[8] See also
References1. ^1 {{cite news |agency=Deutsche Presse-Agentur |url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article565211/Vermutlich-versagten-die-Bremsen.html |title=Vermutlich versagten die Bremsen |trans-title=Brakes thought to have failed |newspaper=Die Welt |date=26 January 1999 |language=German }} 2. ^1 2 {{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/262158.stm |title=Bus crash kills 18 in Austria |publisher=BBC News |date=25 January 1999 }} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/18-killed-after-bus-crashes-1.1257718 |title=18 killed after bus crashes |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=25 January 1999 }} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |url=http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/oesterreich/chronik/373601_Fahrt-in-den-Tod-fuer-18-Menschen-Bremsdefekt-als-moegliche-Ursache.html?em_cnt=373601 |title=Fahrt in den Tod für 18 Menschen: Bremsdefekt als mögliche Ursache |trans-title=Journey into death for 18 people: Brake defect as possible cause |newspaper=Wiener Zeitung |date=26 January 1999 |language=German }} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://derstandard.at/950821/Die-schwersten-Busunfaelle-der-vergangenen-Jahre-in-Oesterreich |title=Die schwersten Busunfälle der vergangenen Jahre in Österreich |trans-title=The worst bus accidents in Austria in recent years |newspaper=Der Standard |date=14 May 2002 |language=German }} This source gives 50 occupants. 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.puskasferenc.hu/en/cikk17.html |title=National Day of Mourning Saturday, Sixth Time Since Regime Change |agency=Index / Hungarian News Service |website=puskasferenc.hu |date=8 December 2006 }} 7. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nol.hu/archivum/archiv-27709-16992 |title=A tizenkilencedik áldozat |trans-title=The nineteenth victim |newspaper=Népszabadság |date=24 August 2001 |language=Hungarian }} 8. ^1 {{cite news |author=Robert Lenhard |url=http://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/suedsuedwest/4121215/Busunglueck-1999_Ueberall-lagen-Truemmer-und-Tote |title=Busunglück 1999: 'Überall lagen Trümmer und Tote' |trans-title=1999 bus accident: 'There was wreckage and dead bodies everywhere' |newspaper=Kleine Zeitung |date=24 January 2014 |language=German }} Further reading
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