Overview
- The city bus, which crashed Tuesday on De-la-Chevallerie-Straße, struck several trees and stopped on the median.
- Passengers had exited before first responders arrived, and medics later took four of them to nearby hospitals.
- The driver was trapped in the crushed front section, and firefighters used heavy tools to free him before an ambulance took him to hospital with serious injuries.
- About 40 firefighters secured the scene, carried out the technical rescue, and delivered on-scene medical care.
- Incident command requested extra ambulances from neighboring Recklinghausen due to the number of injured, a standard mutual-aid step when local units are stretched.