„We hysterically cried out for help” – further details, photos of the accident on M7
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The tragic accident claimed the life of eight people and left 48 injured.
Several road accidents have happened recently in Hungary. Some of them were minor crashes where the drivers left their car without a scratch and only caused some disturbance in traffic. Others, on the other hand, resulted in chaos and the loss of several lives.
That is what happened on Sunday at dawn, a little before 5 am on motorway M7. A bus with 56 passengers on board, including the two drivers, rolled over. As of Monday morning, there has been no official statement neither from the Police nor from the National Disaster Management Unit concerning the cause.
The most straightforward explanation in case of an accident like this usually points at the driver. Whether his ability to drive safely was compromised or he was too tired to concentrate properly.
The son of one of the drivers, László M., told borsonline.hu that he finds it outrageous that people would immediately jump to conclusions and say that the driver must have fallen asleep. He told the magazine that
the two men swapped places 15-30 minutes before the accident, so falling asleep could not have been the cause of the tragic accident.
László M. is one of those eight victims who lost their life.
The other driver, János K., was resting on the seat next to the door. When the bus crashed, he flew out of the windshield. He had a stroke of luck and will recover in the hospital, although he finds it miraculous how he survived with only some minor injuries.
A dreadful accident. The co-driver flew through the windscreen? Presumably not wearing a seatbelt? Would be interesting to know the proportion of those tragically killed or seriously injured were wearing seatbelts.