Istanbul.- A total of 16 people died this Sunday in two traffic accidents in Turkey, nine of them when a long-distance bus overturned in the province of Antalya in the south of the country, and another seven when two cars collided in the neighboring province of Burdur.
The bus, with 34 passengers on board, overturned at 10.20 local time (7.20 GMT) after taking a curve on the access road at a motorway junction on the northern outskirts of the Mediterranean city of Antalya, plunging down an embankment.
Eight passengers died at the scene, while the driver died shortly afterwards in the hospital, reported the governor of Antalya province, Hulusu Sahin, in a press conference, broadcast on his office’s X account. In addition, there are 22 injured, seven of them in serious condition.
Initial investigations suggest that the bus overturned when taking the curve at excessive speed, with a wet road surface, according to the Turkish agency Anadolu.
The vehicle, owned by the Turkish transport company Buzlu, had left the previous day from the city of Tekirdag, in the northwest of Turkey, and had almost completed its 850-kilometer journey.
Just 40 minutes later, around 11:00 local time (8:00 GMT), two cars collided in the neighboring province of Burdu, causing seven deaths and five injuries, the provincial governor’s office reported.
This second fatal accident occurred on a road just 60 kilometers north of the first and has raised to 16 the number of fatalities due to traffic accidents in Turkey in a single morning.
Initial investigations suggest that the bus overturned when taking the curve at excessive speed, with a wet road surface, according to the Turkish agency Anadolu.
The vehicle, owned by the Turkish transport company Buzlu, had left the previous day from the city of Tekirdag, in the northwest of Turkey, and had almost completed its 850-kilometer journey.
Just 40 minutes later, around 11:00 local time (8:00 GMT), two cars collided in the neighboring province of Burdu, causing seven deaths and five injuries, the provincial governor’s office reported.
This second fatal accident occurred on a road just 60 kilometers north of the first and has raised to 16 the number of fatalities due to traffic accidents in Turkey in a single morning.
