Truck rolls into street party in Nieuw Beijerland town, leaving multiple casualties, police say.
Photographs from the scene identified the truck as belonging to the El Mosca company, based in Spain.
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Several people have died in an incident when a truck rolled
into a street party in the town of Nieuw Beijerland in the south
of the Netherlands.
Police said on Saturday it was investigating the incident, which happened at about
7 pm, around 30 kilometres south of Rotterdam.
"At some point a truck went off the road and crashed into the party," police spokesperson Elianne Mastwijk told local broadcaster Rijnmond.
Dutch broadcaster NOS said at least three people died.
Police said they were investigating what caused the truck to leave the road in the village of Nieuw-Beijerland just south of Rotterdam and career down the side of a dike.
Pictures published by Rijnmond and other local media
websites showed a heavy truck from a Spanish transport company
at the bottom of a small dyke, amid broken picnic tables.
The truck's driver, who was not injured, has been arrested and taken into custody by the police, the NOS national broadcaster said.
Source: TRTWorld and agencies
In a wrongful death case brought by the children of a couple killed in a rollover wreck of their Ford F-250, the defence lawyers refuted that the automaker and “its engineers acted willfully and wantonly".
In this March 29, 2011, photo, new 2011 Ford F-250 trucks are delivered to a dealership in Glbert, Arizona in the US.
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Ford Motors plans to appeal a $1.7 billion verdict against the automaker after a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, a company representative has said.
Jurors in Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in the years-long civil case involving what the plaintiffs’ lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks, lawyer James Butler Jr said on Sunday.
Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 in the rollover wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250. Their children Kim and Adam Hill were the plaintiffs in the wrongful death case.
“While our sympathies go out to the Hill family, we do not believe the verdict is supported by the evidence, and we plan to appeal,” Ford said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Butler said he was stunned by evidence in the case.
“I used to buy Ford trucks,” Butler said. “I thought nobody would sell a truck with a roof this weak. The damn thing is useless in a wreck. You might as well drive a convertible.”
In closing arguments, lawyers hired by the company defended the actions of Ford and its engineers.
The Michigan-based automaker sought to defend the company against accusations “that Ford and its engineers acted willfully and wantonly, with a conscious indifference for the safety of the people who ride in their cars when they made these decisions about roof strength,” defence lawyer William Withrow Jr said in his closing arguments, according to a court transcript.
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The allegation that Ford was irresponsible and willfully made decisions that put customers at risk is “simply not the case,” another defence lawyer, Paul Malek, said in the same closing argument.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover wrecks that involved truck roofs being crushed that injured or killed motorists, Butler’s law firm, Butler Prather LLP, said in a statement.
“More deaths and severe injuries are certain because millions of these trucks are on the road,” Butler’s co-counsel, Gerald Davidson, said in the statement.
“An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict,” Butler said.
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At least nine soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and four others suffered injuries after their vehicle plunged into a nullah in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Bagh district in the wee hours of Sunday, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement.
According to a press release from the military’s media wing, the incident happened in Bagh district’s Shujaabad while the soldiers were on routine military duty.
It added that the injured were moved to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Rawalpindi while funeral prayers for the martyrs were offered at Mangla garrison.
The press release said Rawalpindi Corps Commander Lieutenant General Sahir Shamshad Mirza and other military officials attended the funeral prayers.
The ISPR said the bodies will be sent back to their hometowns and buried with full military honours.
AJK Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas expressed profound grief and sorrow over the tragic accident.
Pak Army soldiers met tragic accident in the line of their duty in most difficult and rough terrains-a duty that makes us feel safe & secure in our homes.May Allah accept their shahadat&grant speedy recovery to their injured colleagues. My condolences to bereaved families &🇵🇰Army
— Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan (@SardarTanveerIK) August 21, 2022
“Army soldiers met this tragic accident in the line of their duty in the most difficult and rough terrains — a duty that makes us feel safe and secure in our homes. May Allah accept their martyrdom and grant speedy recovery to their injured colleagues. My condolences to the bereaved families and Pakistan Army,” he tweeted.
Pak Army soldiers met tragic accident in the line of their duty in most difficult and rough terrains-a duty that makes us feel safe & secure in our homes.May Allah accept their shahadat&grant speedy recovery to their injured colleagues. My condolences to bereaved families &🇵🇰Army
— Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan (@SardarTanveerIK) August 21, 2022
At least 35 people killed and dozens were injured in two separate road accidents in Türkiye, the latest of which occurred when a truck collided with first responders in Mardin's Derik district.
Six of 26 injured were reported to be in critical condition.
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At least 19 people have been killed and 26 others injured in a road accident in southeastern Türkiye.
A truck collided with first responders of another accident involving a truck and two vehicles in Mardin's Derik district on Saturday.
"Unfortunately, the number of people who lost their lives in the accident in Mardin Derik increased to 19," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a statement on Twitter.
"The number of injured is 26, six of them in serious condition," Koca said, adding that all means were being utilised for the treatment of the injured.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu also tweeted that all teams were mobilised and the injured were being shifted to hospitals.
Earlier in the day, another traffic accident killed at least 16 people and injured 22 others in southeastern Gaziantep province, governor Davut Gul said.
At least 16 people killed and 29 others injured after a truck with break failure hurtled into pedestrians in Türkiye’s southeast city of Mardin – health minister pic.twitter.com/yXqWUf40ph
A passenger bus overturned and dragged for several dozen metres and hit a fire brigade and paramedic team responding to a traffic incident on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep Highway, as well as a broadcast vehicle of a Turkish news agency, IHA.
The fatalities in the accident include three firefighters, four health personnel and IHA news agency journalists Muhammed Abdulkadir Esen and Umut Yakup Tanriover.
Gaziantep Governor also told reporters that the first accident occurred at around 0745GMT (10:45am local).
A passenger bus has collided with emergency teams handling an earlier road accident in southern Turkey, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22 others.
According to international media, three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were among those killed on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu wrote in a tweet on Saturday. The other eight deaths were on the bus, he added.
As per media reports, two journalists were killed after pulling over to help the victims of the initial accident, in which a car came off the highway and slid down an embankment.
Television footage showed an ambulance with severe damage to its rear while the bus lay on its side alongside the highway.
As per international media, Turkey has a poor record of road safety. Some 5,362 people were killed in traffic accidents last year, according to the government.
