A driver was seriously injured in a nightmarish accident that occurred at dawn on the capital’s Okovovrasten road, before the exit to “Bulgaria” boulevard, according to eyewitnesses of the accident in the “Catastrophes in Sofia” Facebook group.
According to other drivers who witnessed the accident, the car blew by at an extremely high speed, they claim that it was moving at 200 km/h.
On the wet road, the vehicle first skidded several times and rammed into an excavator parked in front of a company building.
From a clip published in “Catastrophes in Sofia”, it can be seen that the car flew several meters, breaking a metal fence and getting stuck in the excavator.
Police officers, an ambulance and a fire truck arrived at the scene of the accident in a few minutes, the eyewitnesses also wrote.
Doctor Daniel Kirovski, who was in the emergency team of medics who arrived at the scene, claims that the young man who crashed is a Turk who lives and works in Bulgaria.
“The patient is alive and has been transported to Pirogov,” he adds. It is not clear what his condition is at the moment.
Video and photos: FB/”Disasters in Sofia”
Working on the publication: Zlatko Zhelev
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