The condition of one of the injured, who suffered in the serious accident in the Vidin region, remains critical.
Four people died when a truck hit a passenger van, eight people are in hospitals.
9 a.m. on Saturday, a few kilometers before the entrance to Vidin. A passenger van with a Plovdiv registration and 10 passengers entered an intersection on a secondary road and took the right of way of a heavy truck moving on the international road E-79.
The impact was fatal for the driver of the van and two of its passengers. The driver of the truck and the other seven people traveling in the van were transported to the emergency center. Another of the wounded died there.
“A 21-year-old boy is in serious condition. He is unconscious, intubated, with brain damage and multiple contusions“, said Dr. Iveta Naydenova, executive director of the “St. Petka“ Hospital in Vidin.
The young man's father is also in intensive care with multiple injuries, but his condition is stabilized. Three of the passengers and the truck driver are in the surgical ward.
“With lung injuries, broken ribs“, explained Dr. Naydenova.
The bus was traveling from the Plovdiv region to the border with a destination of Germany and for work.
In the afternoon, the 21-year-old man was transported to the neurosurgery department of the University Hospital in Pleven.