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Traffic: 20 Injured in Coach Crash on A3

From Die Zeit · () German

Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Twenty people were injured when vehicles collided with a coach in slow-moving traffic on the A3 near Wörth an der Donau in Bavaria’s Regensburg district.
  • Fifteen coach passengers suffered minor injuries, as did five people in a car that struck the coach and another vehicle.
  • The highway closed after the crash and reopened around 2:30 p.m. after a roughly six-kilometer traffic jam formed.

Twenty people suffered minor injuries in a crash involving a coach on the A3 near Wörth an der Donau in the Regensburg district, police said. One vehicle struck the coach, while another vehicle was also involved in the collision in slow-moving traffic.

Fifteen people on the coach were lightly injured. The bus had come from Baden-Württemberg and was carrying older passengers, including a 96-year-old woman. Five people in the car that hit the coach and the other vehicle also suffered minor injuries. Nobody in the second car was hurt.

Several ambulances attended the scene, and a rescue helicopter landed there. Police closed the highway after the crash. The ADAC reported a traffic jam of about six kilometers before the road reopened at around 2:30 p.m.

The injuries were all minor.

· Police spokespersonThe spokesperson described the severity of the injuries after the crash.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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