Overview
- Twelve people were injured in the crash and four are in life‑threatening condition, including one child and the 63‑year‑old driver who was trapped and freed with heavy equipment.
- Police say the bus carried more than 30 passengers, earlier reports indicated roughly 20 children onboard, and nine of the injured were bus passengers.
- According to initial findings the bus grazed a car at a pedestrian crossing, crossed a green strip into oncoming traffic, struck another vehicle, crossed a roundabout and then hit the exterior wall of a multi‑family house.
- More than 100 emergency personnel responded, medics took the wounded to hospitals, and the Technisches Hilfswerk with a DEKRA expert checked the building before lifting an entry ban on undamaged flats.
- Investigators will use witness statements, technical vehicle inspection and a formal reconstruction to determine cause and any liability while authorities keep an assembly point for parents and affected residents in place.