43 injured as tourist bus veers off road in Bavaria

A tourist bus headed for the Austrian Alps crashed on a local highway in Upper Bavaria (Fire Department Traunstein via AP)

A total of 43 people have been injured after a tourist bus heading for the Austrian Alps crashed on a local highway in Upper Bavaria.

The double-decker bus veered off the road and crashed near the town of Inzell, in the Traunstein district of Bavaria at around 7.30am local time, according to Bavarian police.