Six people killed in bus accident near Prague, 14 injured in coach accident in Upper Austria

Six people were killed and several injured in a bus accident on the D8 motorway near the town of Zdiby close to Prague on Sunday morning. The police are still investigating the cause of the accident but fire fighters suspect the bus driver fell asleep behind the wheel. The vehicle drove through a crash barrier, hit a bridge, and rolled over into a pitch.

In a separate coach accident in Upper Austria, fourteen people were injured; luckily no-one was killed. The coach carrying Czech tourists returning from a trip to Italy crashed in the town of Freistadt on Saturday night.