A traffic accident that almost led to a disaster, in the center of the Turkish city of Istanbul, which is the second largest city in the country, where a bus driver fell asleep while driving, which led the bus to go off the road and collide with a stop for internal transport buses without hitting the pedestrians who were waiting for his bus to stop.
A video clip, recorded by surveillance cameras inside the bus, showed the driver’s attempt to return the bus to the road after he fell asleep for a few seconds, which he finally succeeded in after fear and panic appeared on the bus passengers, according to what was shown in the video, which returned local sites, including the website of the “Yeni Shafak” newspaper. And a large number of social media users posted it.
İstanbul Bahçelievler'de, İETT otobüsünün kaldırıma çıkıp durakta bekleyenlere çarptığı kazaya ilişkin, otobüsün güvenlik kamerası görüntüleri ortaya çıktı.
— Yeni Şafak (@yenisafak) February 3, 2023
Although the Turkish media did not report that the driver or passengers were injured, Turkish sources told Al-Arabiya.net that “at least two passengers were slightly injured after they collided with the bus’s seats when the driver suddenly stopped.”
And the publication of the video clip, which documented the exit of the bus from its way, brought the issue of traffic accidents in Turkey to the fore once again, as a number of Twitter users in Turkey called on the authorities to tighten the conditions for obtaining driving certificates to block the road in front of drivers who do not have Driving experience to work within internal transportation companies.
This accident is one of dozens of traffic accidents in Istanbul. It is also one of the hundreds of accidents that have occurred across Turkish roads since the beginning of last month.
Bad weather, such as snowfall and rain in winter, usually causes fatal traffic accidents in Turkey.
Thousands of fatal accidents occur annually in Turkey, most of which occur in Istanbul, the country’s second largest and most crowded city.
More than a week ago, the state of Malatya, in southeastern Turkey, witnessed a terrible traffic accident, as a large transport bus collapsed and fell into the Karkaya Dam Lake, after the driver lost control of it, although he tried to move away from the lake, but his attempts failed.
The bus spun out of control and fell into the lake, injuring 4 passengers with minor injuries, according to local media.
At the beginning of last December, 33 people were injured in a fatal accident that occurred in Istanbul, after an internal transport bus collided with a metro, which led to its derailment, in addition to the collision of the passenger bus with a number of cars and a security barrier on a main street in the city center.