In a video from the scene, it is clearly seen how 50 meters before the specific metal structure there was another warning sign from which metal chains hang.
A 53-year-old man from Larissa is the deceased from the bus accident that happened yesterday, Friday in the center of Bucharest.
According to the Greek ambassador to Romania, Sofia Grammata, the 16 passengers who are in good health are returning by air to Greece, 14 people are in hospitals, while the rest are in hotels.
The causes of the accident are being investigated by the Romanian authorities. According to information, it is being investigated that the GPS system was confused and the driver took the wrong route, choosing a road where no buses pass, causing the vehicle to crash into the height limiter.
According to Romanian media, the driver was tested for alcohol and drug use, which came back negative. Speaking to the officers about how the accident happened, he reportedly told them that he was following directions for the route he took via google maps and didn’t have time to stop when he saw the sign.
The heartbreak of the mother of Nikolaos Chlopsios, the man who lost his life in the tragic accident in Bucharest, is shocking.
“I want my child! He went for a walk. Ah, my child is gone. He went to have a blast. He made this road thousands of times. He worked in Romania for two years. He was coming by car. He was driving with another driver. Nothing had happened to him. Now that he went to have a blast, now evil has found him, my children, what else can I say… What can I say…“
The 55-year-old who until recently worked as a foreman in a Greek construction company in Romania decided to surprise his wife with a trip to Bucharest.
“He wanted to make a surprise for his wife and he gave her a gift to go to Bucharest to the places he had been and he wanted to show her, but you see God had chosen something else” says his sister.
His wife, who only learned about her husband’s death a few hours ago, is also seriously injured.
He has a broken rib, broken chest, and has stitches in his head. According to her husband’s sister, she was unable to speak and was confused as to what had happened to her husband.
It is estimated that her life was saved by the same sheet metal that ultimately killed her husband.
The metal bar that crushed the roof of the bus trapping passengers underneath.
According to the Ambassador of Greece in Romania, Sofia Grammata, the Deputy Minister of the Interior of Romania, who is a surgeon himself, after seeing the unlucky man being released from the bus, he assessed privately at the embassy that he was not going to survive.
He leaves behind two children aged 21 and 23.
“I entered the bus and took out a man. His wife, unfortunately, was left behind. She was conscious but trapped” says an eyewitness.
A 60-year-old woman is hospitalized in a coma, while another woman and a man are seriously injured.
Another 14 people remain in hospital with minor injuries. Some are expected to be discharged within the day.
The rest of the bus passengers are in a state of shock. Most of them are returning to Greece today by air.
“When I went to the hospitals and my colleagues and I thought that those who were left were fine. But when I went to the hotel last night after the hospitals I encountered people who also had scrapes and bruises but had chosen not to visit a hospital precisely because of the severe shock” states the Ambassador of Greece.
There are many questions about the accident. Mainly because the driver did not see the warning bars.
When a tall vehicle passes under and hits the chains it means that it cannot pass under the warning arch before the tunnel.
The driver appears to have been driving at approximately 50 km per hour and tested negative for alcohol and drugs.
According to Romanian media, he said he took that route to the Parliament Palace, where they were headed, because it was the shortest.
According to eyewitness reports in the Romanian media, the passengers were reportedly unhappy with the way their holiday turned out.
They say there was only one driver on the coach driving here in Romania and they could tell he was tired.
The point, however, is called a carniola.
Only since September, when works were carried out in this particular tunnel, there have been 7 more traffic accidents.
The latter was unfortunately to be fatal.
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