Miraculous escape for 15 people in series of road crashes in a day
SEVEN foreign nationals, three of them children, were among 15 who miraculously escaped serious injury in a series of crashes in one day.
Disaster was narrowly averted at 8am on Monday when an out-of-control car ploughed into the forecourt of the Volkan petrol station at Kumyalı, on the Karpaz-İskele road.
Nevzat Nurçin’s vehicle clipped a petrol pump, hit a wall and smashed on to the top of another car, pushing it in turn into a third, which was parked.
Mr Nurçin suffered a cut foot and fractures and his car was a write-off, but no-one else was injured.
The driver of the second car, Mustafa Bolel, who had got out of the vehicle, said locals had repeatedly asked for a speed camera to slow traffic, but their calls had gone unheeded.
He added: “We have a supermarket within the petrol station . . . Had there been children or shoppers here, they could have been killed.”
A five-year-old boy was among five İncirli-resident Russians hurt when their car veered on to the wrong side of the road to Köprülü and collided head-on with a lorry at 10.15am.
Driver Elexey Kuznetsov, 43, and four passengers, including children of 14, 12 and five, were taken to hospital, the youngest with a wrist fracture.
Seven people were injured when a car and a taxi collided on the GirneDeğirmenlik mountain road at 10.20pm.
Taxi passengers Christopher Humby, 64, and Susan Humby, 58, were taken to hospital along with both drivers and three car passengers.