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[b]Egyptians killed in Istanbul pileup identified

ISTANBUL - Anatolia News Agency





Three people were killed and 30 others were injured in the pileup on the TEM.

Two Egyptian citizens who were killed in a major pileup on Istanbul's TEM highway on Sunday were identified today.

Kartal Training and Research hospital identified the Egyptian citizens as Fadi Askander and Germin Wanis.

Three
people were killed and 30 were injured in a major traffic accident on
Istanbul’s TEM highway in the district of Tuzla on the city’s Anatolian
side when a tourist bus on the way to Istanbul from the northwestern
province of Bursa crashed into another bus coming from the opposite
direction, 11 other vehicles could not react in time and crashed due to
the frozen road.

After the initial accident two ambulances, a police vehicle and a fire truck that had rushed to the scene crashed as well.

Turkish
truck driver Mehmet Zahit Aslan and two Egyptian citizens were killed
in the accident. An investigation was launched into the accident, police
officers said.

Meanwhile, 2011 was the year in which the fewest
number of fatal accidents took place throughout the past 11 years in
Turkey. In 2011 fatal accidents decreased 5.8 percent over 2010. Nearly
120,000 traffic accidents out of 311,732 were the result of a driver’s
fault.

Most of the accidents occurred in Istanbul, followed by
İzmir, Antalya and Bursa, respectively. According to official
statistics, 3,821 people were killed and 237,021 were injured last year
in traffic accidents.

January/16/2012