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CANICO, Portugal (AFP) — Twenty-nine German tourists were killed when their bus spun off the road and tumbled down a slope before crashing into a house on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Drone footage of the aftermath of the accident showed the badly mangled wreckage of the bus resting precariously on its side against a building on a hillside, the vehicle’s roof partially crushed and front window smashed. Rescue workers attended to injured passengers […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — At least 20 people were killed and about a dozen injured Sunday night in a bus fire at a Peruvian transport terminal, the emergency services said. Initial reports said an electrical fault at the rear of the vehicle triggered the blaze. “The fire led to the deaths of at least 20 people,” said Lewis Mejia, a fire department official. The blaze erupted at the Fiori terminal in Lima’s northern San Martin […]
(Eagle News) — A passenger bus burst into flames early evening of Friday, March 22, 2019, along the northbound side of EDSA, particularly near the EDSA Shaw tunnel, allegedly after it overheated. No one was reported hurt after the VTSC bus with plate number TXX 274 caught flame, according to authorities. Firemen immediately arrived at the scene and put out the fire. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) also posted a tweet about the vehicular […]
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AFP) — At least 13 people were killed and more than 30 others injured when a passenger bus overturned on a highway in North Macedonia on Wednesday, health minister said. “Thirteen people were killed,” Minister Venko Filipce told reporters. “There are more than 30 injured.” Speaking to AFP, Filipce added that “the number of dead may increase because there are people in surgery and in critical condition” following the accident which happened around […]
(Eagle News)—The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board will summon the driver of the jeep that collided with a bus on the southbound lane of Edsa that injured at least 12 on Sunday, Feb. 10. In a statement, the LTFRB said it would issue the show-cause order against Ignacio Cadayday. Cadayday, according to traffic investigators crossed the intersection coming from East Ave. to Edsa in Quezon City even with the yellow traffic light on, causing it […]
(Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has placed on preventive suspension the bus company that figured in a traffic incident on the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway. The LTFRB suspended the Jumbo Transport Inc. for not more than 30 days, and ordered it to comply with certain requirements within the period of suspension. The LTFRB ordered the company to bring its tourist buses to the agency for “inspection and determination of road worthiness,” to allow its drivers […]
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — A charter bus carrying people with disabilities including children crashed in southwest Poland on Thursday, leaving one passenger dead and 20 others injured, rescue services said. The bus was carrying 51 people when it overturned, landing on its side in a ditch near the town of Kazimierzow, local Polkowice county rescue services said on their Facebook page. “One person is dead… the total number of participants in the accident is 51… […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A scuffle between a driver and a passenger caused their bus to plunge from a bridge into a river in southwest China, killing at least 13 people, police said Friday. Dramatic video footage of Sunday’s crash shows a woman striking the driver over the head with an object, prompting him to hit back with one hand. The woman then lashes out once more. The driver then suddenly yanks the wheel […]
(Eagle News) — Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) chair Martin Delgra said the fare increase that is set for implementation on the first week of November could possibly be delayed. “There’s a possibility,” LTFRB chairman Martin Delgra said when asked about this during in a press briefing in Malacañang. This was after a commuters’ group filed a petition seeking the suspension of the P1.00 fare hike sought by jeepney and bus operators. The […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — At least 19 people were killed when a bus and a fuel tanker collided in central Iran, state television reported on Tuesday. The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm (1845 GMT) on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of the capital Tehran. “Based on preliminary investigations, the tanker swerved to the […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Identification of the 24 victims of a fatal tourist bus crash in Ecuador has been hampered by the dead not carrying official documents, authorities said on Wednesday. “Unfortunately, the bodies arrived without any identity documents, making it difficult to identify them,” said forensics chief Klever Viteri outside the morgue in the western town of Pichincha. So far, seven Colombians, four Venezuelans and two Ecuadorians have been identified. Bogota confirmed earlier in […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — A bus carrying travelers from Colombia and Venezuela crashed in Ecuador early Tuesday, killing 24 people and injuring 22 others, officials said. The dead included an unspecified number of Venezuelans and Colombians, whose embassies were notified of the accident outside Quito, they said. “Most of the victims were Colombians,” said Juan Zapata, security secretary for the capital city. The bus, which had foreign license plates, was on a downward stretch […]
