In Yozgat province, Turkey, a tragic road incident resulted in 12 fatalities and 19 injuries when a passenger bus was struck from behind and veered into a cliff. The report originated from a local television news channel, identified as A News.
Early accounts indicate the bus lost control after the impact and plunged down the embankment. Ambulance services ferried injured passengers to Sorgun State Hospital for urgent medical care.
Yozgat Governor Mehmet Ali Özkan stated that, according to information provided by the country’s Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç, investigators will determine the cause of the crash as the inquiry proceeds.
In a separate region of Russia, reports noted that four people lost their lives in crashes involving two cars. In the Volgograd region, several other fatalities were recorded as part of ongoing traffic incidents.
Data from Russia shows a high level of traffic accidents across the country through 2023. Officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that roughly one in every eleven traffic incidents proved fatal, averaging about 4.9 thousand deadly crashes nationwide. While fatalities declined in some regions, they rose in most others. Only nine federal subjects reported decreases across all three main accident indicators.
Analysts highlighted that the most frequent accident types included vehicle collisions, which accounted for about 45.1 percent of incidents, followed by pedestrian conflicts at 25.9 percent, and exits from roadways at 10.1 percent. In terms of driver violations, failures to yield at intersections and mismatches between speed and road conditions each appeared in roughly 19.9 percent of cases.
A separate incident in Moscow involved a head‑on collision in which an older Mercedes sedan was overturned, underscoring the dangers of high‑speed driving on busy urban roads.