The death toll from a bus accident in southern Guangdong
Province rose to 11 after an injured passenger died in hospital on
Monday night, police said on Tuesday.
The speeding bus rear-ended a tanker at 1:45 a.m. on Monday and
then careered into another bus coming the other way on an
expressway in Zhanjiang.
Ten people died instantly and 39 others, including the driver of
the first bus surnamed Feng, were injured, 11 seriously.
A combination of overloading, speeding and driver fatigue was
blamed for the accident.
The Guangxi-registered bus was approved to hold 39 passengers
but it had 57 on board when the accident happened, according to
traffic police.
The driver Feng is under police surveillance in hospital.
(Xinhua News Agency January 9, 2008)