“A teenager died after a coach crashed down a steep embankment on a slippery pass road in the Tyrolean Alps on the weekend. The 15-year-old boy was part of a group of skiers from Ichenhausen in Bavaria, Germany. He passed away due to serious internal injuries at a hospital in Innsbruck hours after the accident on Saturday afternoon. Thirty-six fellow tourists were injured as well when the coach came off the road, slid down a cliff for six metres before crashing against a concrete pillar at the Rettenbachferner glacier near Sölden.

Police are still investigating the incident to find out whether a technical failure or human error was to blame. It has not been made clear whether the 47-year-old driver was drunk. Officials, however, stressed that the street was slippery but not icy after hours of constant snowfall. Most of Austria’s mountainous areas have already been blanketed in snow for a few weeks, while its lowlands in the east had their first few centimetres on Saturday.” bron: Austrian independent