Eight Killed in Two Crashes on Hungary's M1 Highway

Overview

• Two successive collisions on the M1 near Győr early Friday produced a fatal chain of events that left eight people dead and two seriously injured.
• The first crash at about 4:30 a.m. involved a truck hitting a construction vehicle, which caught fire and killed one person and caused traffic to back up.
• Roughly 30 minutes later a minibus carrying nine people struck a truck stopped in the jam, killing seven of the minibus occupants and seriously injuring the other two.
• Police and initial reports say vehicles involved bore Moldovan licence plates and that the victims were described as foreign nationals, though full identifications and details remain provisional.
• Authorities closed a lane of the westbound M1 toward Austria, launched an investigation, and Hungary’s prime minister publicly offered condolences as emergency services manage the scene and traffic disruption.