Bus Crash in Seongnam Injures 57, Nine Seriously

A public bus crashed into multiple vehicles in the Bundang district of Seongnam, South Korea, south of Seoul, on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, injuring 57 people. Nine people were seriously injured and 48 had minor injuries, according to the National Fire Agency. None of the injuries was reported to be life threatening.

The crash happened at about 7:34 a.m. local time, during the morning rush hour. The bus struck vehicles waiting at a traffic stop, including some waiting at a traffic light, before it crashed into a median barrier, the fire agency said, citing a witness.

Thirty two vehicles in all

The crash involved 32 vehicles in total. The city bus struck four other buses, a cargo truck and 27 passenger cars, according to the fire agency.

Yonhap reported that the bus hit the vehicles over a distance of about 100 to 150 meters before it came to a stop against the traffic barrier in Seongnam's Bundang Ward. The line of damaged vehicles, many of them waiting at the stop, shows how the bus kept moving through the queue instead of stopping with the traffic around it.

The response at the scene

The fire agency deployed 88 personnel and 33 vehicles to the scene and set up an emergency medical station. The count of the injured, nine serious and 48 minor, comes from that response.

The bus driver was also injured. He was freed from the vehicle and taken to hospital, broadcaster KBS reported, in reporting carried inside the Reuters account of the crash. The driver is a man in his 60s, Yonhap reported.

With 57 people injured and no deaths reported, the work at the scene on Wednesday morning was treatment and transport. The fire agency figures, carried by both Reuters and Yonhap, agree on the totals: 32 vehicles, 57 injured, nine of them seriously.

What the driver said, and what police check next

The driver reportedly told police that the brakes did not work. That is a reported statement carried by Yonhap as a paraphrase, not a verified finding, and investigators are looking into the exact cause of the crash.

Police said the driver was not under the influence of alcohol. Police plan to check whether he had taken drugs, Yonhap reported.

Police also plan to investigate the cause using black box recording data from the damaged vehicle and CCTV footage, broadcaster SBS reported, in reporting carried inside the Reuters story. Until that work is done, the cause of the crash is not established. What is established is the result: a city bus ran through a line of waiting vehicles at a Bundang traffic stop at 7:34 a.m., 32 vehicles were involved, and 57 people were injured, nine seriously, with none of the injuries reported to be life threatening.