Bavarian Bus Crash (Germany)
On Monday 3rd of July 2017, A bus carrying German senior citizens on vacation crashed into a truck on a highway in Bavaria & burst into flames, killing 18 people and injuring 30 others, some seriously, officials said.
The accident took place around 7 a.m. when the bus rear-ended a trailer-truck at the end of a traffic jam on the A9 highway near Muenchberg, not far from the Czech border. The accident led to long traffic jams on the A9, the main thoroughfare from Berlin to Munich.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, but prosecutors have opened an investigation.
The bus seemed to have caught fire immediately upon impact with the truck, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters after touring the crash site. The truck’s trailer also burst into flames.
“Two people are still in life-threatening condition,” Dobrint said.
Two drivers and 46 passengers were on the bus. The remains of all bodies were recovered from the bus, including that of the driver at the wheel during the crash, police said.
Police said the truck driver was not injured.
Some 200 emergency crews rushed to the scene and five helicopters whisked the injured to nearby hospitals. Simple wooden coffins were wheeled in for the remains recovered from the blackened, twisted wreckage of the bus.
Police said the ages of those on the bus ranged from 41 to 81 and they were primarily from the eastern German state of Saxony. The news agency dpa reported that all the passengers were German.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked the emergency crews involved.
“Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and we wish all those who were injured a speedy recovery,” she said.
Dobrindt said when firefighters first arrived, the fire was so hot that they couldn’t get anywhere close to the burning vehicle to rescue those stuck inside.
“All they could do was extinguish the fire,” he said. “The heat was so strong that nothing that’s inflammable is left from the bus — only the steel frame.”
The A9 highway remained closed on both sides for hours. Police tweeted later that the A9 highway going south would be shut down for the day.
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Eighteen people have been killed when they were trapped inside a tourist coach that caught fire after it collided with a slow moving lorry on a German motorway.
Thirty people were injured in the crash, which occurred shortly after 7 am local time near the town of Stammbach, 56 miles northeast of Nuremberg, police said. Some were seriously injured.
The bus was carrying a party of holidaying German pensioners on their way to Lake Garda in Italy, and most of the victims were aged between 66 and 81, according to police.
All the dead were believed to be German citizens. Horrific accounts emerged of bodies found charred beyond recognition in the wreckage of the tourist bus. The coach driver was among the dead.
The driver of the lorry, who survived, said no one had been injured in the initial crash, but that the two vehicles caught fire almost immediately and many of the passengers were trapped inside.
The lorry was packed with beds and pillows which quickly caught fire and fed the inferno. Alexander Dobrindt, the German transport minister, said after visiting the scene the heat had been so intense that nothing was left of the bus but metal.
“You can imagine what that meant for the people on board,” he said.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, thanked the emergency services for their response. “Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and we wish all those who were injured a speedy recovery,” she said in a statement.
The incident took place at a notorious accident black spot near the town of Münchberg in Bavaria. The A9, the main Autobahn between Berlin and Munich, runs through the Fichtel Mountains in this stretch and visibility is often impaired by the hilly landscape, sharp bends and rapid changes of weather.
Ten people were killed in a 121-car pile-up in foggy conditions in 1990, and 57 were injured in a 182-car incident caused by sudden heavy snow in 2003.
While much of the German Autobahn network has no speed limit, on this stretch variable limits are strictly enforced. But it appears the driver of the tourist coach did not see the much slower moving lorry ahead because it was just past the crest of a hill.
Around 200 rescue workers were involved in the desperate attempt to save those trapped inside the bus, and helicopters were used to ferry the injured to hospital. The passengers on the bus were a party of pensioners from Lausitz, an impoverished region of the former communist East Germany near Dresden.
“My thoughts and my deepest sympathy are with those who have been so suddenly torn from their lives, with their relatives and with the injured,” Dirk Hilbert, the mayor of Dresden said. “I hope the medical workers will be able to save the lives of the injured.”
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