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"HEADS DOWN, HEADS DOWN" The worker from the bus that overturned described the terrible details of the accident near Sremska Mitrovica: "We fell on our colleagues, we broke the glass to save ourselves"

Blic

Serbia

Saturday, October 18


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This is how he recalls for"Blic" the terrible traffic accident when the bus overturned one of the employees of the company "Healthcare" who suffered minor injuries.

- When I saw that the bus was going towards the canal, I shouted to my colleagues:"Down with your head, down with your head" and suddenly we fell over. We put our heads down near the seats in front of us. We fell on the left side, on top of our colleagues, and when we finally stopped from tumbling, the first thing we checked was if people were okay - one of the workers from the bus told us, still visibly under stress.

As he says, his head and neck hurt a little, but he and his colleague immediately started to climb over the seat, towards the window that was above them.

Sremska Mitrovica saobraćajna nesreća autobus
Photo: Zoran Ilić / Ringier
Sremska Mitrovica traffic accident bus

- The other side, where there are also windows, was on the ground, and there were windows above us. I started banging my fist on the glass and I barely managed to break it - he tells us in one breath and shows his swollen fist.

- My colleague pushed me and I got out of the bus through the window, and then I immediately pulled the colleague who pushed me out and then we both stretched out our hands through the broken bus. We shouted:"Get out quickly, whoever is less injured." We pulled them out one by one, and then a few of us went down to meet them since the bus was high, a few of us who were less injured jumped down from the bus and met our colleagues who were being lowered to the ground by others - he tells us.

Mesto nesreće
Photo: Oliver Bunić / Ringier
Accident site

All the details of the bus overturn near Sremska Mitrovica

Broken windows, damage from all sides: This is what the"death bus" looks like now, in which three people died and more than 80 were injured in the accident near Sremska Mitrovica

Ljiljana Pejinović was killed in the accident near Sremska Mitrovica, who broke the glass of the bus with her head and fell out of the vehicle.

By the way, the company"Healthcare" made an announcement earlier today in which they state that they have declared three days of mourning.

The bus driver who overturned was detained after the traffic accident, all about it in our separate news.

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MUP announced during the night that over 60 work irregularities were found during the inspection of the transport company, and read the details in a separate news item.

A doctor from the Emergency Service described how the rescue of people from the overturned bus proceeded, he said that some were moaning, some were lying down, and that two were dead.

A passenger from the bus said that the driver called a colleague because something on the bus was beeping and that an accident happened after that, read the details in a separate news item.

Aleksandar Stojanović, a passenger from the bus, told"Blic" what the rescue operation was like for him and his colleagues, and you can read the details in a separate news item.

Read the confession of the passenger who sat next to the woman who died in a separate news item.

The director of the General Hospital in Sremska Mitrovica, Vojislav Mirnić, addressed the media around 12 o'clock with the latest information about the condition of the injured in the traffic accident that happened yesterday on the Sremska Mitrovica-Jarak road, when a bus full of workers from a factory in Ruma ran off the road, as a result of which 83 people were injured, while three people died.

In the hospital where the injured in the traffic accident are.

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