Slovakia Celebrates Hero: Truck Driver Risked His Life to Prevent Disaster

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Photos: Hasičský a záchranný zbor – Žilinský kraj I'd say the truck driver should win a Nobel Prize for saving the lives of others. As you can see, he collided with a bus, but swerved to the right at the last minute, damaging his own vehicle. This is one of the rare occasions when someone has done something like this. Typically, collisions are head-on, and the consequences are tragic. The above words were spoken by one of the firefighters dispat…

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One person died in a collision between a long-distance bus and a truck near Liptovská Osada in the Žilina region of central Slovakia on Tuesday morning. For unknown reasons, the bus, which was heading from Poland to Hungary, went into the opposite direction, where a truck was traveling at the time. According to rescue workers, its driver behaved exceptionally heroically. Thanks to the fact that he risked his own life and drove the truck off the …