10 killed, 36 injured as bus rams into truck
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TEN people were killed and another 36 injured when a bus traveling from Shanghai hit the rear of a large truck loaded with construction materials on an expressway in east China’s Anhui Province early yesterday.
The passengers on the bus were headed for Anhui’s Yingshang County.
The bus was operating illegally and the driver did not have a license for the route, the Shanghai Transport and Port Administration said after an initial investigation into accident.
It had a capacity for 53 passengers but it was still unclear how many passengers were traveling in the bus when the accident happened.
The injured are being treated in a hospital in Anhui, the authorities said. Rescue work was completed late yesterday.
“It was terrible,” said a survivor, surnamed Zhou, who was thrown out of window by the impact of the crash.
Zhou told the media he was left unconscious after the accident and opened his eyes in the hospital, only to discover his feet broken.
The accident happened about 3:45am on the Hefei-Huainan-Fuyang expressway. The bus struck the rear of a semi-tractor carrying lithoid ground tiles.
The impact was so fierce that several seat in front of the bus struck deep into the truck with the tiles flying onto the seats that led to the high number of the casualties.
Another survivor, surnamed Tang, said most of the passengers were sleeping.
“My family sat in the middle and were stuck between damaged seats,” said Tang, adding his three-year-old boy had a lucky escape with only minor injuries.
There were chaotic scenes as survivors tried to escape from the broken windows.
Most of the passengers on board were from the Yingshang County. The bus left Shanghai on Thursday night.
The operational license of the Shanghai Ruijin Tourism Bus Service Co has been suspended, said the Shanghai traffic administration, while investigations were ongoing.
The administration said the bus company was “being reckless” when it arranged the trip.
Officials said the company had applied for permission to ply the route with the papers of a driver who had a valid license. But the driver who crashed the bus was different and did not have the necessary qualifications.
It was also found that several buses run by the company were plying without GPS, including the one that crashed.
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