A total of seven people were injured in a serious accident between a bus and a car in Moosach on Sunday afternoon. According to the police, the 67-year-old bus driver lost control of the vehicle due to a sudden illness on Allacher Strasse, left the road and into oncoming traffic, where he collided head-on with an oncoming VW Passat and then a parked trailer into four other cars parked on the side of the road.
The emergency services on site, who were faced with a field of rubble, immediately took care of the 72-year-old Passat driver, who was seriously injured in the impact, which is why he had to be freed from the wreckage as gently as possible. After receiving initial treatment from an emergency doctor, the man was transported to a clinic. The bus driver, who was uninjured in the accident, was also taken to hospital due to the medical incident that led to the accident.
There were six slightly injured people among the bus’s occupants, including the bus driver and five passengers aged 23 to 67. The Passat was a total loss; the damage to the bus could not initially be precisely quantified on site, but at least several thousand euros. The police have started investigating the exact cause of the accident.