Posted on 08/06/2022 4:13:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
44 Polish pilgrims on the bus driving from Poland to Medjugorje, a Roman Catholic shrine in southern Bosnia, including two drivers. Among them were three priests and six nuns, a ministry spokesman said.
Police cleared the area where the accident took place after firefighters and medical teams recovered all the occupants of the vehicle which had Warsaw registration plates.
Polish police officers, in Croatia as part of project "Safe Tourist Destination" project, were helping Croatian authorities in communicating with the survivors.
An investigation has been started into the cause of the accident.
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Not Nepal after all.
RIP.
Several years ago I was in Venice Italy, when five Polish tour busses full of Polish vacationers pulled in to take the ferry over to the island.
All the bus drivers gathered at a picnic table, each with their own 6 pack of beer for breakfast.
When I was in Bari in 2011, there were buses of Polish pilgrims there to visit the church where St. Nicholas is buried.
Wow, that’s crazy!
I was once such a pilgrim to Medjugorje. I don’t know which way these folks went. I took the ferry from Ancona to Split. Then a bus ride along the Dalmatian coast. Beautiful, but in some places it was a shear drop off of the road as you went up into the hills.
The bus was on the A4, one of the major highways leading from the Hungarian border to Zagreb, near the village of Breznica which looks to be about halfway between Zagreb and Varazdin. It was at 5:25 a.m. local time. I don’t know if it would have been light by then—Breznica is about 46 degrees North latitude and it’s toward the eastern end of that time zone so it may get light pretty early.
Just checked a couple of the Croatian websites for more news about the bus crash. Apparently they haven’t determined the cause of the crash yet. The driver was over 70 years old. A couple of the injured are in very serious condition, others are stable and some have returned to Poland.
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