When a school bus crashed in Trier, the bus driver and 14 children and young people were injured. The city said so. There is an information telephone for parents who are looking for their children.
The school bus of the VRT line 25 drove head-on into a tree near the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in the morning. Line 25 runs from Ralingen via Olk, Trierweiler and Sirzenich to Trier. According to the police, there were 36 people on the bus. In addition to the bus driver, 35 school children, teenagers and one young adult.
14 passengers need to be treated in hospitals
According to the police, 14 of them were taken to hospital with injuries, some of them serious. But there are no life-threatening injuries. 22 other children were cared for in the nearby Toni Chorus sports hall. According to the city of Trier, the parents have now picked up all the children there. The collection point has been closed again. Around 120 rescue workers were deployed at the scene of the accident.
Traffic jams in Trier after a bus accident
Long traffic jams formed on the busy Martinsufer in Trier after the accident in the middle of rush hour traffic. The shore road is now passable again in both directions at the accident site.
Cause of accident still unclear
It is still unclear why the school bus coming from the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge left the road and crashed head-on into the tree. The police investigations are still ongoing. The public prosecutor’s office in Trier commissioned an expert to reconstruct what happened in the accident.