Because he wants to avoid the traffic chaos on the Fern Pass, a German trusts his navigation device. In the end there is no further progress for the driver.
Nassereith – Die Holiday season in the Alps is usually accompanied by a lot of traffic. There was an increased volume of traffic on important traffic routes in the first days of January, as well as on the Fernpass road between Austria and Bavaria. A driver from Germany wanted to avoid the traffic jam on Epiphany and asked his navigation device for directions. This put him in a tricky situation.
To avoid traffic jams on the Fernpass, the man relies on the navigation system – and ends up on the bike path
“Following the footsteps of the Romans on a mountain bike”. A restaurant in Mieming in Tyrol is advertising a bike tour along the so-called Old Fern Pass Road. The mountain crossing was an important connection route between north and south around 2000 years ago. However, the Fernpass road now used by cars runs on a different route. According to ADAC, around 30,000 vehicles drive there on peak days.
It is hardly surprising that on January 6th, a German driver asked his navigation system for an alternative route due to the impending traffic jam caused by the many people returning from vacation. It's just stupid that the technology had guided the man onto the Alte Fernpassstraße, which is now a cycle path in steep terrain, she writes Crown newspaper. Only when there was no further progress and the car threatened to fall off the bike path, the driver is said to have made an emergency call around eleven o'clock.
Rescue workers bring German wrong-way drivers to safety
Loud Crown newspaper The man from Germany was not familiar with the area. A towing service and members of the Nassereith Volunteer Fire Department rushed to the stranded driver's aid. With the right equipment, the helpers were able to transport the car to safety within a short time along the cycle path, which is just over a kilometer long.
Unsurprisingly, the German charioteer's wanderings earned him little sympathy on social media. “Hopefully it’ll be a great deal!” says one Facebook user. The driver's nationality in particular seems to be a source of scorn and ridicule in Austria: “Surely a Teutone again,” is the comment of one user. A reader of the Kronen Zeitung asks: “Do I see a 'D' on the license plate???”
It is not uncommon for tourists to get lost in their car in the Austrian mountain landscape. On Christmas day A group of vacationers got stuck in their car on a ski slope.
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