Twenty people have been injured following a terrifying crash between a school bus and a cement mixer truck – five people were rushed to hospital including four kids and the 58-year-old truck driver
Twenty people have been injured after a horror crash between a school bus and a cement mixer truck.
Five were rushed to hospital after the collision on June 11, which happened after the truck driver failed to see the bus stopped.
Four school children were among those hospitalised along with the 58-year-old truck driver.
Cops said the truck driver was unable to brake in time and collided with the back of the bus, though why he was unable to stop is still unclear.
Emergency services closed Federal Highway 83 for several hours as investigators worked at the scene. Officers estimate the damage to be €30,000 (£25,000).
The shocking incident took place in Hamelin, a town on the river Weser in Lower Saxony, Germany, and the capital of the district of Hameln-Pyrmont.
Two weeks ago in Ireland schoolkids were forced to flee a burning bus when the coach they were travelling in caught fire.
The secondary school students were headed off on their end of year school tour but had a lucky escape on Thursday April 28 after their bus burst into flames on the motorway.
he bus load of teens headed from St Joseph’s Community College in the sunny beach town of Kilkee in Clare got the fright of their lives en route to Emerald Park early on Thursday morning when the inferno broke out on the coach, the Irish Mirror reports.
Gardaà and emergency services were rushed to the scene of the fire, near the M7, junction 21 at around 8am. Thankfully, no injuries were reported following the blaze.
