(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-30 10:57

VIENNA - A Polish tour bus crashed off an Austrian motorway and rolled down an embankment Saturday, killing one man and injuring 43 people, police said.

The accident occurred at 5:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) on the A-1 autobahn near Linz in Upper Austria state, Austrian APA news agency reported.

The accident apparently occurred after the bus driver dozed off at the wheel, a police official was quoted as saying.

The bus was packed with elderly people headed to a ski holiday in the Italian Alps near Bolzano.