Over 30 hurt after bus collides with trucks in southern Poland

More than 30 people were reported injured, six of them seriously, after a bus collided with two trucks on a road under construction in southern Poland on Thursday afternoon.

The site of the accident near the southern Polish city of Częstochowa on Thursday.

Photo: PAP/Waldemar Deska

Some 40 people, most of them Ukrainian nationals, were traveling on the bus when the accident occurred in Bogusławice near the city of Częstochowa shortly before 2 p.m., public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.

#Bogusławice | Zderzenie dwóch ciężarówek i autobusu koło Częstochowy. Jest wielu rannychhttps://t.co/fjcrDSeyZJ

— PolskieRadio24.pl (@PR24_pl) July 2, 2020

It quoted a spokesman for firefighters as saying that one of the trucks caught fire as a result of the collision.

One of the trucks erupted in flames after the crash. Photo: PAP/Waldemar Deska

Some 30 fire crews and four medical rescue helicopters were deployed to the scene, state news agency PAP reported.

The road was blocked in both directions, it said.

#DK1 ⛔️ #Radomsko - #Częstochowa

W Bogusławicach, na 456. km, doszło do zderzenia dwóch samochodów ciężarowych i autobusu.

Droga jest zablokowana.

— Radio Kierowców (@RadioKierowcow) July 2, 2020

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Source: IAR, PAP, TVP Info, polskieradio24.pl