BREAKING NEWS: bus from Budapest crashes in Brno, one fatality, many injured – Video, Photos

A serious bus accident occurred on Monday on the D2 motorway in the Czech Republic, on the section between the Slovak-Czech border and Brno on the way to Brno. One of the buses involved was travelling from Budapest, but according to information available early in the evening, there were no Hungarian casualties in the accident.

According to a Czech police spokesman, one driver was killed and 76 others were injured in the accident, of whom 14 were considered serious by Czech doctors, when a Czech transport company FlixBus, which was travelling from Budapest to Prague, collided with the back of another bus.

FlixBus spokesman Tomás Bera told an MTI correspondent that the nationalities of the passengers were not being recorded. According to his sources, three passengers requested communication in Hungarian. Two of them were taken by ambulance to hospital for a general check-up. As none of them were injured, they were released. The third Hungarian-speaking passenger also refused to be examined.

Jan Grolich, a regional magistrate in southern Moravia, told CT24 public news television that he had information that one of the buses was also carrying foreigners, possibly Indians.

JMK – Na 3. km D2 došlo ve směru na Brno poblíž Rebešovic k závažné dopravní nehodě dvou autobusů. Podle předběžných zpráv jeden z řidičů na místě zemřel, v obou autobusech jsou desítky zraněných. Na místě pracují všechny složky IZS. Komunikace je neprůjezdná. #policiejmk pic.twitter.com/vBEAbWpX9n

— Policie ČR (@PolicieCZ) July 17, 2023

The accident was attended by 26 ambulances and four rescue helicopters. Traffic on the motorway was suspended in both directions for several hours.

Police say they are investigating the cause of the accident. “We do not yet have reliable and precise information on the cause of the accident,” David Chaloupka, a police spokesman in southern Moravia, told television this evening. It is assumed that the driver of the bus that hit the FlixBus died in the accident.

V každém z nabouraných autobusů cestovaly téměř čtyři desítky cestujících, občané ČR i cizinci. HZS zřídilo k události informační kanál https://t.co/8MDJAc6Llr
Počet zraněných přesáhl sedm desítek. pic.twitter.com/nHF7hhRFSw

— Policie ČR (@PolicieCZ) July 17, 2023

Three Hungarians affected are doing well

The Foreign Ministry says it currently knows of three Hungarians who were travelling on the FlixBus involved in the bus crash in the Czech Republic, all three are doing well. They are a father and his son and one man. The Hungarian Embassy in Prague is in contact with the authorities and the travel company and they are being given all the help they can.

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