Speeding causes bus crash into Jilin River: police
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| Photo taken on July 2, 2015 shows wreckage of a bus at the site of road accident on Ji'an-Dandong Road in Ji'an City, northeast China's Jilin province. A bus carrying 26 South Korean tourists and two Chinese fell off a bridge on a road from Yanji to Dandong in Jilin province on Wednesday, killing 11 and injuring 17. [Photo: Xinhua/Wang Haofei] |
Speeding and dangerous driving are being blamed for an accident this past week in northeastern China which left a number of South Korean tourists dead.
Ten South Korean tourists were killed, along with one of the Chinese driver, when their tour bus plunged through a guard-rail and into a ravine in the city of Ji'an in Jilin on Thursday.
Su Wenbo with Ji'an Police says they've determined the bus was travelling well above the 40-kilometer per hour speed limit when it hit a tight corner.
"We believe the bus was moving at a speed anywhere from 64 to 88 kilometers per hour when the accident happened, which is well above the speed limit. Our preliminary investigation shows that the cause of the accident was speeding and improper steering by the driver."
Meanwhile, one of the South Korean officials who was sent to Jilin to deal with the aftermath of the accident is also dead.
The official fell from a hotel balcony in Ji'an early this morning.
The circumstances behind his death have not been made public.
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