Just got off the bus

Bus door jams handbag, drags senior citizen with it

A 74-year-old woman wanted to get off the bus at a bus stop in Salzburg. Before she had even left, the bus door closed and trapped the woman's handbag. The moving bus caused her to fall and her leg was caught under the rear wheel.

On Thursday morning, a 74-year-old woman from Salzburg was involved in an accident as she rode the bus into town on Aignerstraße. When she tried to get off the bus at the Überfuhrstraße bus stop, her handbag got caught in the closing door of the rear exit door of the bus.

As the bus started to move, the woman fell and her leg got caught under the rear wheel of the bus. The 74-year-old woman was taken to hospital by emergency services with injuries of indeterminate severity. A breathalyzer test carried out on the bus driver was negative.