Sweden - Bus crashes into bus stop in Stockholm, several dead and injured, 14 November 2025

[Rikissa]

Major bus accident in central Stockholm at about 3,20 p.m. A large double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop on one of the busiest streets in Östermalm. Ambulance, police and rescue crews are still working (three hours after the accident happened). Several dead, and injured, and as the bus is still in place there could be even more dead.
From a Swedish newspaper, translated into English:

JUST NU: Flera döda i bussolyckan – föraren gripen

Föraren gripen – brottsmisstanken

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British BBC reporting:

Several killed after bus crashes into bus stop in Stockholm

Several others have have been injured in the crash in the Swedish capital, police say.

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[Rikissa]

Although the bus driver has been arrested for "gross negligence causing death", the police suspect that it's an accident and not an intentional act.
At the moment it's reported that there are three dead.
Swedish newspaper, article translated into English:

JUST NU: Buss i krasch rakt in i kur – tre döda

En buss har kört in i en busskur på Valhallavägen på Östermalm i Stockholm. Enligt Expressens uppgifter är tre personer döda – flera är skadade. Busschauffören är gripen och polisen utreder grovt vållande till annans död. Enligt Expressens uppgifter ligger ett sjukdomsfall bakom olyckan. – Jag...

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[Dotta]

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[PrairieWind]

The driver has been arrested. Crazy. Was he drunk or was this intentional?

 

[Rikissa]

The driver has been arrested. Crazy. Was he drunk or was this intentional?

Most likely neither of those, most things points that it was a case of sudden illness that caused the driver to loose control of the bus. In Sweden it's not unusual that a person who has been involved in an accident, or other incident where people have died, is arrested immediately afterwards to give the police more recources for the investigation.

The latest information from the Swedish police at 21.50 (9.50 p.m.) is that the bus driver has been detained (which doesn't mean he's suspected of anything at the moment, the Swedish law requires that a person has to be detained if the police want to keep them after the preliminary interrogation). That gives the police more time for their investigation. The charges has been lessen, from "gross negligence" to now "negligence causing death", and there's nothing at the moment that indicates that it was intentional.

Info from the Swedish police, translated into English:

14 november 15.23, Trafikolycka, personskada, Stockholm | Polismyndigheten

Flera personer påkörda i en händelse på Valhallavägen.

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[Rikissa]

The bus driver has been released from custody on Saturday afternoon, and the suspicions have subsided:
Article from Swedish newspaper, translated into English:

Busschauffören släppt: ”Misstankarna har avtagit”

Misstankarna har avtagit mot busschauffören som anhölls efter dödsolyckan i centrala Stockholm på fredagen. På lördagen beslutade jouråklagare att släppa honom

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