Tour bus and truck collide on Turkish highway, killing 11
A tour bus travelling from Bursa to Pamukkale collided with a truck near Akhisar toll gates on the Gebze-Orhangazi-Izmir highway in Manisa province, Turkey, on 11 October. The crash killed 11 people and injured 27 others. The bus was carrying 34 passengers and 3 crew members, while the truck had a single driver.
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Eleven people were killed and 27 injured when a tour bus collided with a truck on 11 October near the Akhisar toll gates on the Gebze-Orhangazi-Izmir Highway in Manisa province, western Turkey. The bus was travelling from Bursa to the tourist destination of Pamukkale in Denizli when the crash occurred at 11:11 a.m. According to Manisa Governor Vahdettin Ozkan, who visited the scene, the bus carried 34 passengers and 3 crew members, while the truck had only one driver.
Of the 27 injured, 16 were classified as yellow-code in the emergency triage system, meaning they needed urgent but not critical treatment. Nine were classified as green-code, indicating they had minor injuries, and one was classified as red-code, indicating the most serious condition. The Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci initially reported 11 dead and 26 injured. Emergency response teams including AFAD disaster personnel, firefighters, health workers and gendarmerie were dispatched to the scene, and the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office is leading the investigation into the cause of the collision.
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