| One dead, 25 injured in traffic accidents |
| 18 May 2008 | 10:57
| Source:
Beta, Tanjug |
VALJEVO, BELGRADE --
Two car crashes last night – on the Valjevo-Loznica road, and near Belgrade – killed one person, while 25 were left with injuries, reports say.
A bus from the Valjevo-based branch of the Lasta bus company was involved in the first accident, when it collided head-on with an incoming truck.
According to information available, the truck switched lanes as it was entering a curve.
The driver of the bus died of his wounds, while 20 passengers were injured, nine of them seriously, doctors in the western Serbian city, some 70 kilometers south-west from Belgrade, have confirmed.
In a separate traffic accident near the Serbia capital, five people were seriously injured in a crash on the old Rakovica road. Two of the victims were taken to a reanimation unit of Belgrade's Emergency Medical Center.
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