The accident site of a bus that crashed into signal post on the highway A2 in Sigirino, canton of Ticino, Switzerland, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. The A2 highway between Rivera and Lugano-North in is closed to the south. Several people were injured in the accident. (Gabriele Putzu, Ti-Press/Keystone via AP)

The accident site of a bus that crashed into signal post on the highway A2 in Sigirino, canton of Ticino, Switzerland, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. (Gabriele Putzu, Ti-Press/Keystone via AP)

BERLIN (AP) — A German bus crashed into a metal post on a highway in southern Switzerland Sunday, leaving one woman dead and another 14 people injured, police said. The bus was heading south with 25 people on board when the accident happened on the A2 highway at Sigirino, near Lugano — along a major route across the Alps from northern Europe to Italy. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the bus to plow into the post, wrecking the front of the vehicle. The bus had set off from the German city of Cologne on Saturday evening and was headed for Assisi in Italy, Johannes Huebner of bus travel group RDA, who was co-ordinating emergency plans for the company involved, told the German news agency dpa. Ticino canton (state) police revised downward their initial estimate that about 40 people were on the bus. (Gabriele Putzu, Ti-Press/Keystone via AP)

The statement said two people had serious but not life-threatening injuries, eight more had "medium" injuries and another four were lightly hurt.
A bus travelling from Germany to Italy crashes in southern Switzerland, leaving one dead and 14 injured.