Police said on Sunday that they are treating the fatal bus accident that killed two people and injured 11 others in north-eastern Germany as a weather-related accident.
They are investigating the extent to which the slippery road surface, the speed of the coach and gusts of wind were responsible for the accident on Saturday evening, a spokesman told dpa.
The accident on the A11 motorway involved a FlixBus coach travelling from Berlin to Szczecin, Poland, carrying 13 passengers and one driver, the company said.
“A FlixBus came off the road on the right-hand side due to the weather conditions in the direction of Poland near the Randowbruch car park and subsequently tipped over,” police reported on Saturday evening.
A large number of rescue workers were deployed to the scene, where passengers were freed from the coach wreck through the front window.
When accidents result in fatalities, investigations are launched into negligent homicide, the police spokesman said.
The criminal investigation department led the investigations into the circumstances of the accident. Trace evidence was collected at the scene of the accident, the spokesman added.
According to the spokesman, records of the coach speed would now also be evaluated.
A Flixbus coming from Berlin is seen overturned on its side off the A11 road at the Randowbruch-Sued rest area. Michael Ukas/dpa
