KTEL bus driver involved in fatal accident released
KTEL
29 Aug 2022
/ 12:32
CORFU. The bus travelling from Corfu to Thessaloniki was involved in a fatal accident.
The driver of the Corfu-Thessaloniki KTEL bus has been released. The 65-year-old driver had been taken to appear before the Prosecutor in Central Macedonia on Saturday 17 August following the fatal accident in which the bus was involved.
The accident happened at 10:45 at the 228km on the Egnatia Road between Igoumenitsa and Kipon travelling towards Kozani.
Corfu KTEL Director Tasos Tsimpoulis told Kozan.gr that all the passengers are well and were transferred to another bus following the accident and taken to their destination. He said that the bus driver was not at fault and that the 66-year-old woman who lost her life lost control of her car, for unknown reasons, and ran into the back of the bus, which had been slowing down as it approached the toll booths.
Although there was no evidence to indicate that the bus driver was at fault, Central Macedonia press officer Petros Tanos said that whenever there is a fatal road accident the driver of the other vehicle appears before the prosecutor on manslaughter charges. That is what happened in this case - the bus driver was arrested and taken to appear before the prosecutor and after it had been decided that the case would go to trial he was released.
According to voria.gr, "The 66-year-old woman, under circumstances as yet unknown, lost her life when her car collided with the Corfu KTEL bus travelling from Thessaloniki to Corfu. Six fire engines went to the scene and the woman was freed by three firefighters and taken by ambulance to the Kozani Mamatsio Hospital, where death was confirmed. There were 22 passengers and a 65-year-old driver on the bus and no injuries were reported. The driver was arrested."
The accident happened at 10:45 at the 228km on the Egnatia Road between Igoumenitsa and Kipon travelling towards Kozani.
Corfu KTEL Director Tasos Tsimpoulis told Kozan.gr that all the passengers are well and were transferred to another bus following the accident and taken to their destination. He said that the bus driver was not at fault and that the 66-year-old woman who lost her life lost control of her car, for unknown reasons, and ran into the back of the bus, which had been slowing down as it approached the toll booths.
Although there was no evidence to indicate that the bus driver was at fault, Central Macedonia press officer Petros Tanos said that whenever there is a fatal road accident the driver of the other vehicle appears before the prosecutor on manslaughter charges. That is what happened in this case - the bus driver was arrested and taken to appear before the prosecutor and after it had been decided that the case would go to trial he was released.
According to voria.gr, "The 66-year-old woman, under circumstances as yet unknown, lost her life when her car collided with the Corfu KTEL bus travelling from Thessaloniki to Corfu. Six fire engines went to the scene and the woman was freed by three firefighters and taken by ambulance to the Kozani Mamatsio Hospital, where death was confirmed. There were 22 passengers and a 65-year-old driver on the bus and no injuries were reported. The driver was arrested."
Source: www.voria.gr
