School bus accident at Zakopianka, 25 injured

On Friday around 11 AM there was a road accident of a school bus with primary school children on it. The accident happened at the route linking Kraków and Zakopane (the so-called Zakopianka). 25 passengers were injured, four of them seriously. According to information provided to journalists, 48 people were involved in the accident: 46 traveled by bus, including 42 children, the bus driver, and three carers, the truck driver and the driver of a passenger car. The drivers of all cars were sober, but they were not questioned because of their health condition. The prosecutor's office will yet decide on the legal qualification of the investigation. In total, 34 people were transported to hospitals. According to the secured data from the truck tachograph, the driver did not violate the time of driving and rest. At the time of the accident he rode at 65 km/h, the vehicle was not overloaded and carried about 8 tons - said Tomasz Fabiański, the head of the inspection department from the provincial Road Transport Inspectorate in Kraków.