Two killed in coach accident on A96

A coach tipped over on the A96 near Buchloe in the Ostallgäu. According to police, two people were killed and several were injured. There was a Filipino tour group on the bus. By BR24 Editorial On Autobahn 96 in the Ostallgäu, a fully occupied coach has tipped over.

According to police, two people were killed and eight others were seriously injured. In addition, there should be numerous minor injuries. The fatal accident therefore occurred on Sunday morning at just before 6 a.m. on the A96 between Buchloe-Ost and Landsberg am Lech-West in the direction of Munich. Bus was traveling with Filipino tour group Of the seriously injured, one person was in critical condition, police said.

Six people came to hospitals immediately with rescue helicopters. Two more were taken to clinics by ambulance. A collection point took care of 22 other people, several of whom were then also taken to hospitals. Initially, only one of the two dead could be identified: He is a 58-year-old man, also a Filipino resident in Italy.

The identity of the other victims and the severity of the respective injuries were initially unknown. 33 passengers were on board. "This was a closed tour group that was on its way to Oktoberfest," said the spokesman for the Fürstenfeldbruck traffic police inspectorate, Martin Cornils, on the spot. The members of the tour group live in Italy and have Filipino citizenship.

They were accompanied by two bus drivers who were uninjured. The 40-year-old driver, who was driving at the time of the accident, was of Italian nationality. Proceedings were initiated against him on suspicion of negligent homicide in road traffic. According to the police, this is the usual procedure in such cases.

In the video: Two dead and many injured in a bus accident on the A96 motorway in both directions released The vehicle of an Italian company had strayed from the road to the right on the way from Milan without the participation of other road users, tipped over and stopped on the right side next to a trough on the motorway. The public prosecutor's office commissioned an expert to clarify the course of the accident. A large contingent of around 130 firefighters, 130 paramedics and around 20 police officers was deployed. For the salvage work, the motorway had to be completely closed in both directions.

In the afternoon, the motorway was cleared in both directions, after it had been cleared at noon, initially in one lane in the direction of Munich. The overturned coach is to be transported via a cycle and forest path directly next to the motorway. Again and again, serious accidents with coaches Accidents with coaches are always particularly dramatic: just recently, five people died in an accident on a Dutch bus in Switzerland. Three more were seriously, seven moderately and 30 slightly injured, as reported by the Graubünden Cantonal Police on 10

September reported, the bus bumped into a guardrail and then veered right off the road. He tipped over and lay on his side. The accident site was located at the exit of a construction site about 200 meters long.

On 6 September, 30 people were injured in an accident on the A3 motorway near Wörth an der Donau (Regensburg district) – 15 of them were in a coach, and they suffered minor injuries. According to the police, one car had collided with the coach and another vehicle in halting traffic. With information from dpa In the video: BR24live about the accident with a coach on the A96 This is the European perspective at BR24.

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27.09.2026 - 06:00