9 People Killed, 26 Others Injured After ‘Speeding’ Bus Rolls Off Road amid Wet and Foggy Conditions
Authorities said “it seems the bus was speeding” when the fatal crash occurred
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Tekirdag–Antalya route in Turkey. Credit :
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Nine people were killed, and 26 others were injured, after a passenger bus rolled off the road in Turkey’s Antalya province on Sunday, Feb. 1
Authorities said “the ground was wet and there was fog in the area” at the time
In addition, Provincial Gov. Hulusi Şahin said “it seems the bus was speeding” when the fatal crash occurred
Nine people were killed, and 26 others were injured, after a passenger bus rolled off the road and crashed.
The crash occurred on Sunday, Feb. 1, in southern Turkey’s Antalya province, authorities said, per The Associated Press and Turkiye Today. The bus was traveling on the Tekirdag–Antalya route when it skidded and struck roadside barriers, before plunging into a ravine in Dosemealti, a district to the northwest of the Antalya city center.
Images shown by state broadcaster TRT showed the bus lying on its side on an embankment on a highway slip road, per AP.
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Provincial Gov. Hulusi Şahin said that of the 26 people who were injured, at least seven sustained critical wounds such as severed limbs, per AP. The driver was among the nine fatalities.
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Tekirdag–Antalya route in Turkey.
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The DHA news agency reported that some passengers were thrown from the bus, which had traveled overnight from Tekirdag in northwestern Turkey.
The area had seen heavy rain in recent days. “The ground was wet, and there was also fog in the area,” Şahin told TRT, adding, “It’s not a place to speed, but it seems the bus was speeding.”
One passenger who survived the crash claimed that the weather was poor and that the driver failed to safely negotiate a curve when the bus overturned, Turkiye Today reported.
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Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunç said an investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of the accident.
There was a second deadly crash near Antalya, a popular tourist destination, on Sunday, per AP. Seven people died in a collision involving two vehicles in Burdur, about 40 miles north of Dosemealti.
According to the outlet, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya previously shared a post on social media addressing what he described as a “traffic culture” that saw 6,351 people die on the country’s roads in 2024. He outlined existing proposals for stricter traffic laws.
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