About 60 vehicles slammed into each other today in heavy snowfall on an autobahn in northwestern Austria, killing one person and injuring at least 30 others, police said.

Up to 100 cars were involved in a huge pile up on an Austrian autobahn today.

A bus carrying travellers from Hungary to Germany and the Netherlands slid out of control on a snowy highway and went over an embankment early today, killing one person and injuring 10 others.

Eight people were killed and 50 injured, many of them seriously, in two mass pileups on a fog-shrouded stretch of Austria’s Salzburg to Vienna motorway today.