NOS News•today, 05:33
More than twenty people were injured in a bus accident in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia last night. A police spokesperson told the DPA news agency that there were about sixty people on the bus.
The bus left the road on the A44 near the town of Werl, about 35 kilometers east of Dortmund, for an unknown reason and ended up on its side. No other vehicles were likely involved in the accident.
There were about sixty passengers on the bus. Twenty of them were slightly injured. A person is in worse shape, but is out of danger. On the bus were students from a vocational school returning from an excursion to England. Part of the highway was closed to remove the bus.
There was also a bus accident in Germany on Wednesday morning. Then a Flixbus went off the road near Leipzig. No other vehicles were involved. Four women were killed, six other people were seriously injured and 29 were slightly injured. The bus driver has been investigated on suspicion of culpable homicide.
