A girl in Saudi Arabia recently helped save the life of a bus driver by driving the bus herself and averted an accident.
The driver had fainted on the wheel while driving the vehicle, according to a report in Anha online newspaper. Ashwaq Al Shamri acted bravely and drove the bus carefully and took the driver to the nearby hospital.Read more
At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus crashed on a highway near Taipei on Monday night, with Taiwanese television footage showing the bus careening toward a road barrier at a highway curve before flipping on its side.
Forty-four people were in the bus, not the previously estimated 45, according to the latest figures from the local fireRead more
The Integrated Transport Centre, ITC, at the Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport in Abu Dhabi, has announced the development and enhancement of bus network services in Abu Dhabi City and Al Ain, and their suburbs. New services have been added, some modified and others cancelled.
The new services will be implemented starting from 10th February, 2017.
Khaled Mattar AlRead more
At least 18 people were killed and 30 others injured after a private bus fell off a bridge in the eastern Indian state of Odisha Friday, a police official said.
"The incident took place in the state's Angul district when the private bus fell off the Manitri bridge into a 50-feet deep area after the driver lost control of theRead more
A bus collided with a truck in east China's Jiangxi Province Wednesday, killing at least six people, local authorities said.
The bus was carrying 59 people between the cities of Jingdezhen and Jiujiang, when it collided with a truck at around 4 p.m. Both vehicles overturned.
Several others were injured and the rescue work is underway.
Source : XINHUARead more
- Eight people were killed and one injured in a train-bus collision early Monday in Turkey's southeastern province of Elazig, Hurriyet News reported.
A train making its maiden voyage in Tatvan, a town in Elazig, crashed into a minibus that stopped on the track, Hurriyet said.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the accident.
source : xinhua Read more
At least 30 people were killed and several others injured after a passenger bus carrying them skidded off the road and fell into gorge in India's northeastern state of Meghalaya, local reports said Wednesday.
source : xinhuaRead more
Twelve passengers were killed and 23 others were injured when their bus plunged into an irrigation canal in southern in southern Turkey's Osmaniye province, health sources said.
The sources told state-run Anadolu Agency that the bus was carrying students, parents and teachers, when it fell into the channel in the vicinity of Cevdetiye Village on Osmaniye-Kozan Highway on Sunday.
TheRead more
Police say that one woman has died and 11 others were injured when a fire broke out in a bus in northern Albania.
Police said Friday that the fire broke out at 11:25 a.m. (0925 GMT) when the Mercedes bus was near the old bazaar in Kruja, 35 km north of the capital, Tirana.
It was taking 30 Christian OrthodoxRead more