独高速道路でバス横転、４人死亡

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドイツ・ライプチヒ近郊の高速道路で２７日、バスが横転し４人が死亡、３５人が負傷した。警察が明らかにした。（写真はドイツ・ライプチヒ近郊で発生したバス横転事故の被害者の棺を運ぶ人）
　負傷者のうち、２９人は軽傷、６人は重傷だという。
　運行会社のフリックスバスによると、バスはベルリンからスイス・チューリヒに向かっていたところで、乗客５２人、運転士２人が乗っていた。正確な事故の発生状況は「現時点では不明」だが、運転士はいずれも生存しているという。
　当局によると、救急隊が現場で負傷者の治療に当たった。高速道路は上下線ともに通行止めとなったという。
　警察は、他の車両が横転に関与した形跡はないとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/03/28-18:16）

Four people were killed and around 35 injured when a bus overturned on a German motorway near Leipzig on Wednesday, police said.
The bus came off the A9 motorway in the morning between Wiedemar and the Schkeuditzer Kreuz junction.
Police had earlier announced the death of five people in the accident, but revised the toll in the evening.
One person initially reported dead is in a critical condition, police said in a press statement Wednesday evening.
They said 29 passengers were slightly injured and six were in serious condition.
German operator Flixbus said the bus was en route from Berlin to Zurich with 52 passengers and two drivers.
The exact circumstances of the accident are not yet known, Flixbus said in a statement.
We are of course working closely with the local authorities and the emergency services on site and will do everything in our power to clarify the cause of the accident quickly and completely, it said.
The two drivers both survived, Flixbus added.
Photos showed the bus on its side, having apparently ploughed into trees on the side of the road.
Emergency services attended to the injured at the scene and the motorway was closed in both directions, German authorities said.
There were no indications that other vehicles were involved in the crash, according to the police.
German Transport Minister Volker Wissing said he was shocked by the accident.
Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and, of course, with all those affected, and we wish the injured a speedy recovery, he told Welt TV.
Another Flixbus vehicle crashed on the same stretch of motorway in May 2019.
In that accident involving a bus travelling from Berlin to Munich, one person was killed and more than 60 injured, seven of them seriously.