Algarve bus crash

Algarve bus crash
Details
Date 17 June 2015
Country Algarve, Portugal
Statistics
Deaths 4
Injuries 31

On 17 June 2015, a bus traveling on the A22 highway near Algarve, Portugal drove off the road and fell into a gully. The accident originally killed a total of three passengers and injured thirty others.[1] However, a fourth passenger on the bus died the following day.[2]

Accident

Traveling from Faro Airport, the bus was carrying thirty-three Dutch tourists, headed to various holiday destinations.[3] All the passengers had arrived to Portugal on flight OR697. At around 11 P.M. local time when it fell off the A22 highway and rolled into a gully.[4] Three passengers died on the scene with a fourth passenger in critical condition dying the following day.[5]

Aftermath

Over one hundred workers responded to the scene of the accident. An emergency hospital to treat the victims was set up right next to the bus.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Corder, Mike. "Bus Crash in Portugal Kills 3 Dutch Tourists, Injures 31". ABC News. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Four Dutch tourists killed in bus overturn in southern Portugal". APA. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Three tourists die in Portugal bus crash". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Porter, Tom. "3 Dead in New Portugal Bus Crash". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Three dead after Portugal bus crash". BT. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Three tourists die in Portugal bus crash". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
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