Serious accident with public bus: Woman dies after crash

The driver of the van was killed in a head-on collision between a small van and a bus between Langenbrettach-Langenbeutingen (Heilbronn district) and Bretzfeld-Schwabbach (Hohenlohe district). The 21-year-old died of her serious injuries at the scene of the accident, a police spokesman told SWR. According to initial findings, the woman drove into oncoming traffic on a right-hand bend and crashed head-on into the bus. The driver of the bus was seriously injured. The two passengers, two children, were uninjured.

Expert to clarify the course of the accident

The county road was closed until 2 p.m. for clean-up work. “A sought-after expert is also to reconstruct the exact course of events of the accident,” the police spokesman told SWR.