The death toll is feared to rise as more people are expected to return home today, the last day of Eid al-Adha. The joy of Eid al-Adha has turned to pain for some families whose vacation ended early on the road, with 60 people perishing in car accidents and 300 injured since Thursday.
In an accident on Saturday in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, three people died and two were injured when a car collided with another vehicle and overturned. On Sunday, three people died and four were injured when two cars collided in the Gölbaşı district of Adıyaman province.
Five people died on Sunday in the Nilüfer district of Bursa when a car, whose driver lost control of the vehicle due to speeding, crashed into a bus stop. Semra Çetin, Resmiye Yurteri, Ebru Candaş and Hikmet Dikici, who were at the bus stop, died at the scene, and Cevriye Tokpınar, who was seriously injured, died at the Uludağ University Medical Faculty Hospital on Monday. The driver, Atıl Arda Y., 22, who was detained immediately after the accident, told reporters that he apologizes to the victims’ families and that he understands their pain as his 7-year-old sister also died in a car accident.
