After the coach accident on Saturday morning on Autobahn 2 near Peine, east of Hanover, the bus driver’s breath alcohol test was unremarkable. “The on-site test was 0.0. There were no other failures either,” said a spokeswoman for the Braunschweig police inspection on Sunday. The bus had left the road on the way from Austria to Norway and overturned.
18 accident victims were slightly injured. There were 19 vacationers in total – eight female and eleven male, including a nine-year-old. The police started investigations into endangering road traffic and negligent bodily harm against the 55-year-old bus driver. The driver is capable of being heard. In addition, the data of the bus would be evaluated.
The bus company based in Freistadt in Upper Austria accommodated the group nearby, the spokeswoman said. The vacationers did not want to continue the journey, but wanted to return home first.
