Four people died and 24 were injured when a sleeper coach veered off an expressway in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early on Saturday, traffic police said on Sunday.
The coach, en route from Changsha, in the central Hunan Province, to Guangxi's regional capital Nanning, veered from its lane, knocked down the guardrail and plunged into a country road at around 5:00 a.m. on Saturday.
The dead included three men and a woman. Their identities were not immediately known, said a traffic police officer in Binyang County.
Most of the injured passengers suffered fractures and bruises and none was in a critical condition, said Huang Shangtao, a doctor at Binyang County Hospital.
The two drivers, surnamed Peng and Pan, were also injured.
Peng, who was driving, claimed one passenger had tried to snatch his steering wheel, but could not describe to police what the man looked like.
Police suspect driver fatigue may have caused the accident, and have launched an investigation.
Source: Xinhua
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