A road collision has killed eight people and left 16 others
injured, three seriously, in northeast China's Jilin Province, local authorities said on
Sunday.
A truck crashed into a bus on a highway near Jindou Township in
Tonghua County at about 5:50 AM on Saturday and both vehicles
overturned, killing seven people on the scene, including the
drivers of the two vehicles and five passengers aboard the bus, a
spokesman for the Tonghua county government said.
Another bus passenger died Saturday after emergency treatment
failed at a local hospital, the spokesman said. Three people who
were seriously injured are in a stable condition now, he added.
Investigations show that the truck drifted into the lane of the
bus. Fatigue driving by the truck driver was blamed for the
accident.
The bus was carrying 22 passengers when the accident occurred,
most of them retired workers from Tonghua County out for a
sightseeing trip in a neighboring county, the spokesman said.
(Xinhua News Agency July 9, 2007)