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Coach driver dies after bus bursts into flames in fatal Slovakia crash en route to Budapest
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Nearly thirty passengers needed treatment, several injured people were taken to hospital, and the passengers were transported to a nearby village hall in evacuation buses.
Coach driver dies after bus bursts into flames in fatal Slovakia crash en route to Budapest
A Polish long-distance coach travelling from Kraków to Budapest was involved in a fatal crash in central Slovakia in the early hours of Tuesday morning, leaving the driver dead and several passengers injured.Continue reading
The majority of the passengers were Polish citizens, two people were taken to hospital.
For unknown reasons, it went into the opposite direction.
Slovak authorities have no doubts. It's a true miracle that all the passengers of the Polish FlixBus that burned down in Liptovská Osada on Tuesday (February 17th) escaped alive. According to one firefighter who spoke to Slovak media, a major tragedy was only averted thanks to the incredibly quick reaction of the truck driver who collided with the bus. "I did everything I could," the driver said in an interview with TN Live. The man has already …
During a subsequent press briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Maciej Wewiór corrected the previously given information regarding the direction in which the bus was traveling. The bus was going from Krakow to Budapest and about 30 people were traveling on it.
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