A serious bus accident occurred on the A4 highway in the direction of Zagreb, Croatia.

At least 12 people lost their lives and at least 18 were seriously injured.

The accident happened around 05:40 on the 62nd kilometer of the A4 highway in the direction of Zagreb between Jarek Bisask and Podvorec.

A bus with Polish license plates has gone off the road.

This is one of the worst bus accidents that have happened on Croatian roads in the last 50 years.

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has published some of the biggest accidents in the last five decades.

Ten Kosovar victims near Slavonski Brod on July 25, 2021

Ten people lost their lives and 15 were seriously injured in a serious accident on the highway near Slavonski Brod.

The bus traveling from Frankfurt to Pristina went off the road, while the driver was arrested after investigations.

There were 69 people on the bus.

The head of the traffic police station in Slavonski Brod, Franjo Galic, declared that it was one of the worst accidents he had seen.

Eight Czech tourists died on June 23, 2012

In the bus accident that happened around 04:00 in the vicinity of the Krpan tunnel on the Zagreb-Split highway, eight Czech tourists, including a girl, were killed, while 44 people were seriously and lightly injured.

The bus went off the road and hit a fence and a pole and overturned.

The fault of the driver, who died in the accident, was established.

The bus was taking tourists from Brno to Baska Voda.

14 Slovaks died on September 7, 2008

The most serious bus accident on Croatian roads recently happened on September 7, 2008, on the A1 highway near the intersection of Jadova and Zir.

14 Slovak tourists died.

The cause was the driver's fatigue.

The Slovakian driver fell asleep and then the bus crashed at full speed into the concrete abutment of the overpass.

About thirty Slovaks were slightly or seriously injured.

Three female passengers died on August 10, 2007

Another serious bus accident occurred on August 10, 2007. The cause was its inappropriate speed.

Instead of the maximum permitted speed of 40 km/h, the driver of the vehicle entered the section at about 100 km/h, which sent the bus hitting the guard rails and overturning.

Two female passengers died in the accident, while the third died six days later in hospital.

12 passengers were seriously injured in the accident.

The driver pleaded guilty to causing the accident in the court of Karlovac.

Three people died when the bus landed in a ravine on February 13, 2007

On February 13 of the same year, a bus on the Zagreb-Dubrovnik route fell into a ravine at the Opuzen intersection, killing three people and injuring 13 others.

The accidents were caused by poor visibility, strong south wind and rain.

14 children died when a train hit a bus on September 22, 1989

Perhaps the worst accident that can be remembered in Croatia happened before 1990.

On September 22, 1989, a train collided with a bus at 8:36 am.

14 children lost their lives in the terrible accident.

A special bus operated by the company Zagorje-trans from Veliko Trgovisçe transported primary school students Ante Kovacic from Marija Gorica on an excursion to Stubičke Toplice.

Immediately before the accident, the bus was moving along the parallel road through Pojatno from the direction of Zaprešić towards the Zagorje highway.

Visibility at the railway crossing was only 25-30 meters due to dense fog, while under normal conditions it was 400 meters there.

The passage was marked only with the cross of Andrew.

Only after the accident was the ramp installed.

26 killed in a train collision with a bus in 1983

Most of the dead were in the bus accident that occurred on September 28, 1983.

On a foggy autumn morning at the level crossing in Bilaj, the bus was hit by a train.

The train hit the bus, which was mainly transporting high school students.

25 people died and one person died later during treatment in Zagreb.