As of: March 29, 2024, 6:36 a.m
By: Moritz Bletzinger
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55 people got on the Flixbus in Berlin, which later crashed on the A9. After the accident, the police counted 52 and the fire department searched in vain.
Leipzig – Great confusion after the fatal Flixbus accident on the A9. How many people were on the bus when the crash occurred? Nobody can really answer that at the moment.
Flixbus accident on A9: How many people were on board?
Flixbus states that 53 people checked in in Berlin for the trip to Zurich, plus the two drivers. Then the accident in front of the Schkeudritzer Kreuz near Leipzig, in which four people died. There was also temporary confusion about the number of victims.
According to police information, the Flixbus tour bus left the road and tipped over on its side. The reasons for this are still unknown. © Jan Woitas/dpa
Passengers missing after Flixbus accident: Fire brigade searches next to A9 with thermal imaging camera
After the accident, the rescue workers only counted 52 people (including the deceased). The Wiedemar municipal fire brigade describes the operation in detail on Facebook: "During the course of the emergency service, identification of the bus driver and the removal of the injured by the DRK district emergency service and helicopter (four), it was determined that three passengers could not be found."
A search began immediately for the people who were presumably injured. “The operations management decided to send several search teams with thermal imaging cameras into the adjacent areas (forest and vegetation areas) to view the missing people. A helicopter was also used for further searches, as was the drone from the district of North Saxony.”
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The bad news: “Until the end it was not clear whether the missing people had even gotten on the bus.” Three missing people after the Flixbus accident? At least the police can correct this number to two on Thursday. “Flixbus has now admitted to the police that a passenger on the list was recorded twice,” said a spokeswoman for
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. For the other two people, the question remains open, as does the question of the cause of the accident on the A9.
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