By Dac Thanh  July 30, 2018 | 10:27 am GMT+7 The accident took place on National Highway 1A in Quang Nam Province at 2 a.m. om Monday. Photo by VnExpress/Dac Thanh Fourteen people were killed early Monday morning when a sleeper bus and a container truck trailer collided in Quang Nam Province. The sleeper bus, with 17 passengers on board, was going from Quang Tri Province to Binh Dinh Province for a wedding ceremony when it crashed onto the container truck trailer traveling in the opposite direction at around 2 a.m. on Monday. Among the dead was the groom, who was going to pick up his bride. The accident took place on a National Highway 1A section in Dien Ban Town in the central province of Quang Nam, around 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest of Da Nang. Ten people were killed on the spot and three died on the way to a local hospital. One succumbed to injuries at around 9:45 a.m. Three others are in critical condition, said Quang Nam Chairman Dinh Van Thu. The driver of the bus was among the dead, while the truck driver sustained minor injuries. The dead people will be taken to their hometown for funeral services today, Thu said. Both vehicles were badly damaged in the collision, which provincial authorities are investigating. Road crashes are a leading cause of deaths in Vietnam, killing almost one person every hour. A total of more than 9,000 traffic accidents occurred in the first half of this… [Read full story]
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