Overview
- A tour coach carrying Dutch holidaymakers rolled onto its side between Zernez and Susch in the canton Graubünden after breaching a guardrail during roadworks, killing five passengers and injuring about forty.
- Authorities and hospitals are treating and repatriating victims, with ten people reported still in hospital and some injured passengers already flown back to the Netherlands.
- The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has begun victim identification and consular support and has confirmed one of the dead as a 75-year-old volunteer from Appingedam’s Bie Daip festival.
- Touringcarbedrijf Hartemink, owner of the bus operating for travel organiser Oad, posted condolences and said it is cooperating with authorities while Swiss police investigate the circumstances of the crash.
- Reports identifying the driver as Montferland councilor Rob Mos come from a single source and have not been independently confirmed, leaving driver responsibility an open question for investigators.