Bus carrying Polish vacationers overturns, killing 12 individuals and injuring 10 others on the M3 motorway close to Mezokeresztes.
Revealed On 16 Aug 2026
A bus crash in japanese Hungary has killed 12 individuals and critically injured 10, police say.
The bus carrying Polish vacationers overturned on Sunday on the M3 motorway close to the city of Mezokeresztes, 140km (87 miles) east of Hungary’s capital, Budapest.
The bus, travelling from Serbia to Poland, was carrying 57 passengers and two drivers when it drove right into a ditch and overturned, police stated.
Eleven individuals have been declared useless on the scene, and one other individual died in hospital, the nationwide catastrophe administration company stated. The ambulance service stated 37 individuals suffered minor accidents.
The hearth brigade and different rescue employees needed to drag some individuals out by the home windows as a result of they have been trapped within the bus.
“A Polish-registered bus travelling on the M3 motorway in the direction of Nyiregyhaza … veered off the straight stretch of street right into a ditch and overturned. Preliminary info suggests the driving force probably fell asleep,” police stated on their web site. They stated the bus driver was taken into custody.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar provided his condolences to the households of the victims and thanked rescue employees who have been dispatched to the scene.
Polish International Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stated on X: “The consular service is operational. We’re in touch with the Hungarian authorities. The Ministry of International Affairs will present verified info.”
Polish President Karol Nawrocki stated: “It’s with deep sorrow that I acquired the tragic information of the Polish bus accident in Hungary, through which so lots of our compatriots died.”
It’s the deadliest street accident in Hungary since 2003 when a prepare hit a German vacationer bus at Siofok, killing 33 individuals.
