Ten dead and 44 injured in Croatia motorway bus crash
- Officials said the bus was carrying 67 passengers, including children, and two drivers, one of whom died in the crash
- Authorities said the other bus driver had been detained. He apparently lost control of the vehicle after briefly falling asleep
A bus swerved off a motorway and crashed in Croatia early on Sunday after the driver apparently fell asleep, killing 10 people and injuring at least 44 others – some of them seriously, authorities said.
The crash happened about 6am near the town of Slavonski Brod on the highway between the Croatian capital of Zagreb and the Serbian border, a key artery over the summer due to tourists and workers coming home from western Europe. Police said the bus had Kosovo number plates and was travelling from Frankfurt, Germany, to Kosovo’s capital of Pristina, which is south of Serbia.
Officials said the bus was carrying 67 passengers, including children, and two drivers, one of whom died in the crash. The 44 injured were transferred to local hospitals. Slavonski Brod hospital chief Josip Samardzic said eight people had serious injuries.
Authorities said the bus driver was detained after he apparently lost control of the vehicle after briefly falling asleep.
“He said he fell asleep for a moment,” local deputy prosecutor Slavko Pranjic said, according to Index news site in Croatia.
Police said the bus slid off the road into the grass before flipping on its side.
