Driver Fell Asleep
Serious Tour Bus Accident in Hungary: Twelve Dead
Twelve people were killed in a tragic tour bus accident in eastern Hungary; all other passengers were injured. According to police, the driver is believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel of the bus.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen According to the Hungarian news agency MTI, a total of 57 passengers and two drivers were on the bus when the accident occurred. Twelve people were killed, and the remaining 47 were injured, ten of them seriously. They were taken to the hospital, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar. Reports indicated that 14 ambulances were deployed to rescue the injured.
The bus, which was traveling from Poland, was on the M3 highway near Mezökeresztes, about 140 kilometers east of Budapest. There, the bus “veered off the road on a straight stretch, drove into a ditch, and overturned,” the police wrote on their website.
According to initial police findings, the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel while driving early Sunday morning. Authorities subsequently arrested him.
According to the PAP news agency, authorities in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship reported that a group of pilgrims from the Subcarpathian region had been traveling on the bus involved in the accident on their way back from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Magyar expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and wished the injured passengers “a speedy recovery.” Polish President Karol Nawrocki expressed his shock. “In the face of this unimaginable tragedy, which touches us all, my thoughts and deepest sympathy go out to the families and loved ones of the victims,” he wrote on X.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that he would send a special flight to Hungary carrying medical personnel and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “We stand together in this difficult moment,” the liberal politician emphasized.
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