A double-decker bus ploughed into a queue of people at a stop on Valhallavägen in Stockholm on Friday, November 14, 2025. Three died. Three more were hurt.
Police got the first call at 3:23 p.m. The street runs through Östermalm, in the north of the Swedish capital, close to the Royal Institute of Technology. The stop sits by the Tekniska Högskolan station, and the bus had left the carriageway and mounted the pavement before it hit the shelter.
Within minutes the scene filled with police, ambulances and fire crews. Images carried by the media showed rescuers crouched beside the bus, trying to reach people beneath it.
A nurse at the scene
Michelle MacKey, a nurse, told the Expressen daily she had just stepped off another bus when it happened. “I crossed the road and saw the double-decker bus that had mowed down an entire bus stop queue,” she said. People lay on the ground, some injured and some dead, and many were screaming while others tried to help them.
“There must have been more people under the bus,” she said. “I thought it was an exercise at first. That maybe they were dolls. It was so unreal. Chaos.”
Driver held, cause open
The driver was taken into custody. Police spokesperson Nadya Norton told AFP that this was routine after a fatal crash, and that officers still had to question him before deciding whether to release or detain him. “The investigation will have to determine what happened. It’s too early to say and I don’t want to speculate,” she said.
Officially the case was opened as manslaughter, and police described it as involuntary manslaughter. Swedish media reported that the crash looked like an accident, though police themselves offered no cause. The front of the bus was badly damaged.
The Swedish news agency TT, citing emergency services, said the vehicle was an ordinary city bus that was not running a route. Nobody was on board except the driver.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wrote on X that he had “received the tragic news that several people have died and been injured at a bus stop in central Stockholm.” He called them “people who might have been on their way home to family, friends, or a quiet evening at home.” The cause was not yet known, he said, and his thoughts were with those affected and their loved ones.
Valhallavägen is a busy avenue, and it was open to traffic again by Friday evening. Police technicians stayed to work at the site after the emergency vehicles had gone.
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