Two passengers were taken to hospitals in Banská Bystrica and Ružomberok. Their lives are not in danger.
How many people died in a bus accident?
What happened to the bus passengers?
Where did the accident happen?
How did the truck driver react?
Could more people have died?
Slovak journalists, describing the accident and its circumstances, emphasized that An even greater tragedy could have occurred, but the truck driver prevented it. Seeing a bus approaching him, he swerved sharply to the right. His vehicle landed in a ditch, but there was no head-on collision.
— He deserved an award because he saved people's lives. At the last moment he turned to the right. Usually such accidents end much worse, one of the firefighters told the private station Tv Markiza.
The causes of the accident that occurred in Liptovska Osada are being explained by the Slovak police.
