A collision between a bus and a truck took place in eastern Germany on Tuesday, in which 52 people were injured, including 10 seriously, the police said.
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Most of the injured were passengers of a Polish bus traveling in the direction of Berlin.
A representative of the municipality of the Oder-Spree district of the federal state of Brandenburg announced that one of the victims received life-threatening injuries.
Polish police said that all the injured were Polish citizens. They are employees of a German company, informed the representative of the Polish police station in the town of Gozów Wielkopolska.
The Polish consul announced that all the injured were adults.
German officials did not name the destination of the bus. At first, it was also not clear exactly how many passengers were on the bus.
The police informed that a transporter of dangerous goods on the A12 highway collided with a truck that had stopped in front of it on the highway. The truck driver tried to turn left, but his car collided with the side of the bus. The bus crashed into a highway barrier after this collision.
The police said that the dangerous goods carrier was empty at the time of the collision.
The representative of the municipality of Oder-Spree County informed that there were 95 emergency workers at the scene on Tuesday. Three rescue helicopters took some of the injured to hospitals. People who were not injured were picked up by other buses.
A few weeks ago, a bus from Poland was involved in an accident on the A2 motorway near the eastern German city of Magdeburg. More than 30 people were injured in this accident. The police believe that the bus driver had fallen asleep for a short time.
2023-05-09 21:46:16
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