Trucks

A truck driver was crushed by his vehicle in the hold of a ship docked at Patra port in western Greece on Thursday.

The 68-year-old was fatally injured when his truck backed into him as he tried to secure it in the hold of the Maltese-flagged Eurocargo Trieste.

Truck drivers at Batrovci agreed to unblock the border crossing between Serbia and Croatia for passenger traffic on Wednesday, afternoon, Tanjug reported.

A fuel tanker has overturned on the Hemus motorway near Sofia with the truck cabin hanging from the edge of a bridge over Vitinya pass, bTV station reported on Thursday.

According to initial information, the trailer contains 20 tonnes of fuel which is being drained by firefighters to prevent a potential explosion.

A wildfire has been raging near the village of Sopovo, located in the municipality of Boboshevo in western Bulgaria.

The fire initially originated in pastures, but later spread to beech and oak forests, daily Dnevnik reports.

A truck with Bulgarian license plates overturned on the Egnatia Highway, near the junction for Thessaloniki, early on Wednesday, shedding large quantities of hospital supplies including chemicals onto the road surface.

The truck driver, who lost control of his vehicle under circumstances that remained unclear, was hospitalized for treatment to minor injuries.

In the wake of a spate of serious road accidents caused by trucks, Transport Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis on Thursday heralded the creation of a new state body to oversee truck safety.

A truck that was proceeding with its dump bed raised hit an overpass in Istanbul on Sept. 22, causing panic on a road linking to a major highway but no casualties.

Questions have been raised over the safety regulations regarding trucks following a Sept. 3 accident in which a truck hit an overpass in Istanbul, killing one person.

Although is a defined standard for the operation of dump trucks, according to the Standards Institute (TSE), primary bodies that check the vehicles before they hit the road fail to follow these regulations. 

A large firefighting unit comprising 30 firemen handling 13 fire engines as well as five water-dropping aircraft and two helicopters was dispatched on Wednesday to contain a large blaze that broke out on forestland in northwestern Rhodes, close to the village of Soroni.

The Death toll from a tanker truck accident on July 22 in southeast Turkey has increased to 33 with the deaths of three more patients in different hospitals this week.

Police officer Akif Çakır died Aug. 5. Two injured passengers, Özlem Şimal and Ahmet Şen, who were being treated in hospitals in Adana and Ankara died on Aug. 6.