Overview
- A passenger train hit Manninger's car at a road-rail crossing near Nussdorf am Haunsberg, north of Salzburg, around 8:20 a.m. Thursday, according to local reports.
- Emergency crews tried to revive the 48-year-old with a defibrillator, but he died at the scene, and the roughly 25 passengers on the train were unhurt.
- Police have opened an investigation focused on an unprotected crossing that may lack barrier arms or clear signage, and they are checking whether warning lights activated.
- An accident expert is also analyzing electronic data from the car and the train to reconstruct the moments before impact.
- Red Bull Salzburg confirmed his death, and Arsenal, Juventus, Liverpool and Austria's football federation posted tributes to a goalkeeper who won titles with Arsenal in 1997–98 and Juventus in 2011–12 and earned 33 caps for his country.