According to early reports from the Hellenic Police, the Ukrainian driver of the truck may have failed to see two cars ahead due to dense fog in the area.
The accident occurred when a crane truck crashed into power lines in the southern Athens suburb of Voula.
According to police reports, the elderly driver’s vehicle crashed into a taxi ahead, which then collided with another car in front of it.
Three police officers failed to arrest a driver for DUI, with the latter crashing his luxury SUV into another smaller vehicle hours later, resulting in a 22-year-old's death
Alleged police failures in arrest protocols have sparked public fury after a deadly drunk driving crash in Crete.
388 CCTV devices will monitor streets and avenues with high accident rates in the Greek capital
Despite the remarkable rise in road traffic incidents, casualties in June 2024 decreased by 3.1%
Two more were injured
According to Eurostat data, Greece ranked 6th among the EU’s 32 member states with 58 victims per 1 million inhabitants, Romania holding top stop with over 90 fatalities per 1 million
Luckily, only one of the 10 injured passengers, a Greek woman, remained hospitalized but with mild injuries
Greece posted 518 deaths from car accidents in the first 10 months of 2023, while another 95 car accidents have occurred in just the first few days of the holidays
An 18-year-old and a 17-year-old lost their lives after their vehicle veered off its course
The car plunged into the sea for unknown reasons