PM Babiš: Filip Turek should resign over serious car accident

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Tuesday that Filip Turek (Motorists) should resign as the government's commissioner for climate policy and the Green Deal following Monday's serious traffic accident in central Prague.

Babiš made the statement after new footage emerged showing Turek overtaking a line of vehicles in a lane from which he was not permitted to continue straight. At the intersection, his car collided with a Prague hospital vehicle transporting biological material under emergency conditions, with flashing lights and siren activated. The vehicle flipped over several times, narrowly missing pedestrians. The driver was injured.

Babiš said he had already brought up the matter in a call to Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists) and told him that if the situation unfolded as it appears in the footage, Mr. Turek should take responsibility and resign from his post as commissioner.