bMore than 20 people were injured in a bus accident on highway 44 in North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday evening. According to a police spokesman, students from the Warburg University of Applied Sciences on the Hesse border were sitting on a bus with about 60 passengers when it left the road near Werl and fell on its side. The young adults were on their way back from a trip to England.
A police spokesperson initially said 21 were slightly injured and one was seriously injured. Dortmund's command center later said 20 people were slightly and one seriously injured. It was agreed that no one's life was in danger. The bus driver was reportedly not injured. The cause of the accident is still being clarified, according to preliminary data, no other vehicles were involved.
The accident happened in the direction of Kassel. The A44 was then closed on one side. The closure is likely to last several more hours, a police spokesman said early this morning. The bus had to be repaired before being rescued.
Four people died in a bus accident on Wednesday
It was only on Wednesday morning that a serious accident occurred on the A9 highway near Leipzig, when a coach with 54 passengers on the way from Berlin to Zurich left the road and fell on its side. Four women were killed, six people were seriously and 29 slightly injured. To the best of our knowledge, no other vehicles were involved in this accident. The bus driver was investigated on suspicion of negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm.
In recent years, serious bus accidents have happened repeatedly in Germany. Despite this, buses are one of the relatively safe means of transport. According to accident statistics, they are relatively rarely involved in traffic accidents with personal injuries.