Alex Manninger, former Arsenal goalkeeper, dies in traffic accident
Alex Manninger, an Austrian former goalkeeper who played for several European soccer teams, including Arsenal and Juventus, has died at age 48. One of his former teams, Red Bull Salzburg, wrote on X that Manninger died in a traffic accident. Multiple media outlets are reporting that Manninger was inside a vehicle that was struck by a train on a railway crossing Thursday morning in Nussdorf am Haunsberg. In response to an inquiry from The Times regarding Manninger’s death, Salzburg state police sent a news release, originally written in German, detailing an accident that morning in which a “car was struck and dragged by a train of the Salzburg Local Railway while crossing the tracks,” based on an initial investigation. The driver, identified only as “a 48-year-old man from Salzburg,” was undergoing CPR from first responders when officers arrived at approximately 8:20 a.m. “Police assisted with resuscitation efforts, including the use of a defibrillator,” the release said. “Despite further efforts by paramedics and an emergency physician, resuscitation was unsuccessful. The man from Salzburg succumbed to his …
