A bus carrying 55 Ukrainian citizens, including children, overturned on Wednesday, June 25, on Romania’s DN22 highway near the village of Tariverde.
According to the Ziua de Constanta news outlet, the accident occurred at approximately 6:45 p.m. Kyiv time. Preliminary investigations indicate the driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to overturn.
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Emergency responders quickly arrived at the scene. Several passengers sustained minor injuries, but no fatalities were reported.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to Ukrainian media that, according to information from the consular department of the Ukrainian Embassy in Romania, the bus involved in the accident was operating on the Odesa-Bucharest route.
At the time of the accident, the bus was carrying 55 Ukrainian citizens, including 8 men, 37 women, and 9 children.
Four people sustained injuries, while eight others received medical assistance at the scene. None of the passengers required hospitalization.
The cause of the accident is currently under investigation.
In mid-June, a tragic motorway accident in western France claimed the lives of four people and left nine others seriously injured. The incident involved a bus carrying Ukrainian students returning home from a school exchange trip.
French authorities said the crash occurred near the town of Degre in the Sarthe region, around 230 kilometers southwest of Paris. The bus was the only vehicle involved in the accident, according to local official Emmanuel Aubry.
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All four fatalities were adults. French prosecutors confirmed that the two Ukrainian drivers were detained on suspicion of manslaughter and causing involuntary injuries.
The group on board included teenagers aged 15 to 17, the Ukrainian Embassy in France said. Ukraine’s Ambassador to France, Vadym Omelchenko, described the accident as “very, very sudden” after speaking with some of the passengers.
President Volodymyr Zelensky later confirmed that three of the four people who died were Ukrainian citizens. He also revealed that two more individuals remained in critical condition, with French doctors working to save their lives. He thanked French authorities for their swift assistance to the victims.
French Labor Minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet said that 18 additional passengers sustained minor injuries when the bus overturned.
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