Overview
- Two buses collided on a state road between Hebertshausen and Haimhausen during a school excursion on Wednesday, killing a second-grade boy at the scene and leaving multiple pupils and a teacher injured.
- Police say a teacher and two children sustained severe injuries, two children suffered moderate injuries, and 26 pupils plus both drivers had minor injuries according to official counts.
- Voluntary breath-alcohol tests at the scene showed 0.0‰ for both bus drivers, a result officials say rules out alcohol impairment but does not explain the cause.
- Staatsanwaltschaft München II has commissioned a technical expert report to reconstruct the crash and to examine factors such as speed and vehicle handling in the tight curve, with findings expected to take several weeks.
- Emergency services deployed helicopters, roughly 15 ambulances and about 100 rescue personnel and local authorities have opened a crisis hotline, offered psychosocial care at the school and church, and organized support for families and first responders.