The driver of a Danish tourist bus and two passengers were killed and 42 other people were injured in a motorway collision with two trucks in eastern Germany overnight, police said on Saturday.
The trucks had stopped earlier after a car skidded into the central protective barrier on the road near Eisenberg, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) south-west of Leipzig. The Danes were mostly young people on their way to a ski-ing holiday in Austria, police said.
The three women killed in the accident were the 47-year-old driver, and two others seated nearby, aged 39 and 58.
The injured, some of them very badly hurt, were flown by helicopter or taken by ambulance to neighbouring towns. The driver of one of the trucks and his passenger were among those hurt.
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