Traffic accident kills 8, injures 15 on east China's expressway
23/8/2006 15:01
A traffic accident killed eight people and injured 15 others on an
expressway in east China's Jiangxi Province yesterday morning, local authorities
said.
A mini-bus ran into a truck that was parking on the road after its
transmission shaft broke down at about 3 a.m. on an expressway linking Beijing
with southeastern city of Fuzhou in Jinxian County, Nanchang City of Jiangxi, a
spokesman with the provincial traffic police authorities said.
Eight people
aboard the mini-bus were killed on the spot, and 15 others were left injured,
four of them in serious condition, the spokesman said.
All the injured
students have been rushed to hospital, he said.
The mini-bus carried two
drivers and 21 primary and high school students when the accident took place, he
said. All of the students were children of migrant farmer workers in Wenzhou
City in east China's Zhejiang Province.
The mini-bus was rent by the parents
of these students, who were on the way back to Wenzhou after visiting their
hometown in the Yangxin County of central China's Hubei Province, the spokesman
said.
Both of the two drivers were killed in the accident, he said.
The
mini-bus is allowed to carry only 12 passengers, but it carried 23 people when
the accident happened, the spokesman said.
Investigations into the accident
have been underway.
Xinhua
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