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Shock in Floridsdorf: Pedestrian seriously injured in traffic accident!
On October 7, 2025, a traffic accident in Vienna-Floridsdorf seriously injured a 72-year-old pedestrian.
Shock in Floridsdorf: Pedestrian seriously injured in traffic accident!
There was a serious traffic accident in Vienna-Floridsdorf on Monday, October 7, 2025, in which a 72-year-old pedestrian was injured. The incident occurred when a 45-year-old man backed his car from a parking lot over a ramp towards Prager Strasse. He collided with the pedestrian who was walking on the ramp at the same time. The collision caused the elderly woman to fall to the ground and be seriously injured. Fortunately, the Vienna emergency services rushed to help and immediately took the woman to the hospital reports Vienna.at.
Such accidents are not isolated cases. It was only on Tuesday, around 24 hours later, that another serious traffic accident also occurred in Floridsdorf, in which a 15-year-old pedestrian was seriously injured. A 19-year-old driver initially collided with a car stopped at a red light before losing control of his vehicle and driving over a traffic island. He tore two traffic signs out of their anchorage and finally hit the young person. The 15-year-old suffered serious head injuries and multiple fractures and also had to receive emergency medical care; her condition was classified as critical reports the courier.
Worrying accident statistics
Manfred Wirsch, President of the DVR, is therefore calling for increased attention to the safety of pedestrians. There has been a worrying increase in pedestrian injuries and deaths over the past three years. In order to counteract this, a pedestrian traffic strategy from the federal government is necessary, supplemented by the StVO amendment, which makes it easier for municipalities to set up zebra crossings and enforce speed limits on busy routes to school.
The dramatic events in Floridsdorf illustrate the need to improve traffic safety and, in particular, to protect pedestrians. It remains to be hoped that targeted measures can prevent such accidents in the future.