An overturned bus

Orphanage bus overturns in accident

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Published 21 September, 2007, 17:17

One teenager died and ten others were injured when a bus collided with a sport utility vehicle in the Siberian Krasnoyarsk Region.

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According to the police, the bus driver ignored a traffic sign.

The bus belonging to a local orphanage overturned in the collision. It reportedly had sixty passengers aboard, despite being designed to carry just twenty-five.

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