A double-decker bus ploughed into a bus shelter on Valhallavägen in Stockholm on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, killing three people and injuring three more, police said. Authorities were alerted at 3:23 p.m.
The street is in the Östermalm district, in the northern part of the Swedish capital near the Royal Institute of Technology. Photos from the scene showed serious damage to the front of the bus.
Police are treating the crash as involuntary manslaughter while they investigate. They have not said what caused it. The Swedish news agency TT reported that police confirmed the driver had been detained and would be questioned about what happened.
One detail stands out. Emergency services told TT the bus was an ordinary city vehicle, not in service, and that nobody was on board at the time. The people who died and were hurt were at the stop.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wrote on X that he had received “the tragic news that several people have been killed and injured at a bus stop.” He added: “People who were perhaps on their way home to family, friends, or a quiet evening at home.”
“We do not yet know the cause of this,” Kristersson said, “but right now my thoughts are primarily with those who have been affected and their families.”
