At a traffic light in Langenhagen near Hanover, a truck crashes into the side of a bus. A passenger dies. There are many injured.
Langenhagen – After the collision of a truck with a public service bus at an intersection in Langenhagen in Lower Saxony, in which a passenger was killed, the cause of the accident is searched for.
According to a police spokeswoman, some witnesses had said that the traffic lights were not in operation at the time of the accident; other witnesses would have given different information. The truck wanted to drive straight ahead at the intersection – the articulated bus on line 380 came from the right, the spokeswoman said.
In the accident in Langenhagen near Hanover, the two drivers and 17 passengers in the bus were injured – four of them seriously, as the police spokeswoman said. The tractor unit without a trailer hit the side of the bus at an intersection "apparently with full force". The fatally injured adult stood in the bus and was thrown out.
The 46-year-old truck driver and the 45-year-old bus driver were taken to the hospital. Four children were among the injured passengers, one was seriously injured and flown to hospital by helicopter. dpa
