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Polish bus crashes off Austrian highway, 1 killed, 43 injured |
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13:57, March 30, 2008 |
A Polish tour bus crashed off an Austrian motorway and rolled down an embankment Saturday, killing one man and injuring 43 people, police said.
The accident occurred at 5:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) on theA-1 autobahn near Linz in Upper Austria state, Austrian APA news agency reported.
The accident apparently occurred after the bus driver dozed off at the wheel, a police official was quoted as saying.
The bus was packed with elderly people headed to a ski holiday in the Italian Alps near Bolzano.
Source:Xinhua
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