Runner hit by tram on Vienna’s Ringstrasse – LPD Wien investigating as may have ignored a red light
Michelle Topham 
If you want to keep up-to-date on crime in Vienna, Austria, accidents between a tram and a pedestrian, security information about upcoming events, or anything else involved with keeping the public safe in the nation’s capital, you should be following LPD Wien (Vienna police) via their official X account.
Or through the press releases LPD Wien efficiently uploads to their website every day.
Not only is their X account and their press releases highly informative, whoever runs their account on X is pretty funny sometimes as well.
Runner hit by tram on Vienna’s Ringstrasse
One of today’s updates on the LPD Wien X account is about a 47-year-old runner who, regardless that he/she had a red light while on the Ringstrasse this morning, decided to ignore the light and cross the street anyway.
The result?
As you might expect if you have spent any time walking Vienna’s busily-trafficked streets, he/she was hit by a tram.
That X update was then followed by a slightly more detailed account of the accident on LPD Wien’s official website, which translated into English explains:
Officials from the Inner City City Police Command (aka Stadtpolizeikommandos Innere Stadt) were informed of a traffic accident this morning as a tram collided with a runner.
The 47-year-old runner was injured in the accident and, after emergency medical care, was taken to a hospital by the Vienna Professional Rescue Service (aka Berufsrettung Wien).
Further accident surveys of witnesses were taken by the traffic accident command.
In the course of the surveys, it turned out that the runner may have crossed the ring road at a red-lit pedestrian traffic light and is said to have overlooked the tram coming from the left. Further surveys are ongoing.
Yes, LPD Wien is extremely informative with their reports.
And, honestly, the information they release goes a long way to make you (well me, anyway) feel much safer and more “taken care of” in Vienna.
Follow them. You will learn a lot more about what goes on in Vienna that way.
I will also warn you, if you are heading towards Vienna for the first time or are new in town, do be extra careful when crossing the street.
That is due to streets all over the Austrian capital being traversed by cars, buses and, of course, trams and by cyclists who, quite honestly, are not always traveling in the correct direction.
That’s why, regardless what street signs say about various Vienna streets being “one way”, always look both ways before stepping off the sidewalk.
That way, you won’t be hit by a cyclist traveling in an illegal direction.
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