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Fatal Flixbus accident on the A9 motorway is reminiscent of terrible coach accidents in recent years. © JENS SCHLUETER/afp
There are dead and injured people in the Flixbus accident on the A9 motorway near Leipzig. It is not the first fatal bus accident on the route.
Leipzig – It is a tragedy that brings back memories. At least five people died in the fatal Flixbus accident on the A9 on Wednesday. According to police, the driver of the crashed Flix bus is not among the fatalities. His state of health is unknown, it is said (as of 2:31 p.m.). The cause of the accident is initially unclear. But terrible bus accidents have already occurred on the A9 motorway.
Fatal Flixbus accident on the A9 motorway – again?
Particularly shocking: About 15 kilometers from the current accident site, also on the A9, another Flixbus crashed almost exactly five years ago (2019). A woman died in the bus accident and nine passengers were seriously injured, including a six-year-old girl. A coach driver lost control of his vehicle due to a “medical problem”.
In 2019, the bus deviated from the middle lane near Bad Dürrenberg to the right of the road and overturned on an embankment. A guardrail pierced through the windshield. The only driver at the time, 59, was also seriously injured. The bus was traveling from Berlin to Munich on behalf of Flixbus.
March 27, 2024 |
Flixbus accident on the A9 near Leipzig with at least five deaths |
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May 19, 2019 |
Flixbus accident A9, Bad Dürrenberg claimed one life |
July 9, 2017 |
Bus tragedy on the A9, 18 people die |
Bus accident on the A9 is reminiscent of serious coach accidents in recent years
In general, traveling by bus is comparatively safe. This emerges from data from the accident statistics of the Federal Statistical Office from 2022. Buses are therefore rarely involved in traffic accidents. If so, people would be more likely to be injured in accidents with public buses. However, when a coach has an accident, the number of people affected is often large.
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Tragic bus inferno on the A9 claimed 18 lives
During a bus drama in July 2017 on the A9 motorway, 18 people died in the flames. 30 people are injured, some seriously. The coach crashed into a tractor-trailer near Münchberg in Upper Franconia and immediately caught fire. According to initial findings, the driver's inattention caused the accident. At the time, the public prosecutor spoke of a “chain of several tragic circumstances.” However, the bus did not have an assistance system that automatically brakes in the event of an impending rear-end collision.
Fatal bus accidents with deaths on motorways in Germany
Thuringia, October 2015
: A bus with students from Saxony comes off the road on the A4 near Erfurt after an overtaking maneuver and overturns. A boy dies.
Saxony, July 2014
: Eleven people die when a coach from Poland first hits a Ukrainian bus on the A4 near Dresden, then breaks through the guardrail and races into oncoming traffic.
Brandenburg, September 2010
: 14 Poles die when their bus is rammed by a car on the A10 south of Berlin and crashes into a bridge pillar.
Lower Saxony, November 2008
: A coach on the A2 near Hanover bursts into flames due to a technical defect. 20 passengers on the way back from a coffee trip die.
21 people died in a terrible bus accident in Venice. Three Germans were also among the fatalities. In October 2023, the shuttle bus of a campsite in the Marghera district with many tourists on board fell from a flyover bridge onto a railway line underneath and immediately caught fire. The bus driver had suffered a seizure. The guardrails didn't hold up.
(ml, dpa)