In China, a bus that was carrying 36 people veered off of the road in heavy fog and crashed into a valley in western China. The crash killed fifteen people.
The accident occurred on Tuesday June 18, 2013. That afternoon, the bus was traveling to a tourist spot near Changji city in the Xinjiang region when the accident happened. The accident occurred around 5:10 p.m. The bus was returning from a tourist spot near the Changji in the Changji Hui autonomous prefecture. The bus fell into a valley near Miaoergou Township, Rehmanjon Dawut, deputy governor of the prefecture, said during a news conference on Wednesday.
The 15 people killed in the accident ranged in age from 18 to 49. The bus was one of 10 rented by a local shopping mall to take more than 360 of its employees on a tour. Twenty passengers in the bus suffered injuries and are still being treated. Four are in critical but stable condition. The male bus driver survived the crash and is being treated at a local hospital.
The tour bus carrying 35 female passengers plunged into a valley on Tuesday, falling more than 40 meters. Poor road conditions and bad driving conditions make accidents in China quite common.
In a deadlier bus accident in central Peru, a bus veered off of a highway and fell into a river. The accident has left at least 30 dead and 9 are still missing.
According to Highway Police Chief Col. Rodorico Cubas, the bus was believed to be carrying 54 passengers when it went off the road on a curve and fell into the Tarma River in Junin province.
Emergency crews recovered 30 bodies and rescued 14 or 15 injured survivors. Nine people are still unaccounted for. Rescue efforts continue. Officials fear that there could be more bodies in the wreckage.
“We’re still waiting to recover nine bodies or injured people,” Cubas said, adding that the injured had been transported to hospitals in communities closest to the accident site.
The police chief also stated that the bus went off the roadway for unknown reasons before entering a tunnel and ended up plunging into the Tarma River, some 229 miles from Lima.
Witnesses told investigators that the bus went down a 50-meter (163-foot) slope into the river and that the weather conditions at the scene were making it difficult for emergency crews to attend to the injured and recover the bodies.
On Wednesday, news channels showed images of a destroyed bus lying in the river.
As in China, accidents on Peru’s highways are a common thing because of poor driving, poor state of roads, and the informality of the transportation sector in those countries.