80-year-old man's head crushed after tour bus strikes tunnel roof in Taiwan

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An elderly man has died a tour bus crashed into a tunnel roof in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Wednesday (March 20), HK01 reported that day. The 80-year-old, surnamed Zhou, was seated in the front seat of the bus' upper deck when it collided with the tunnel entrance, crushing the roof of the bus. This fractured the elderly man's skull, and he...

PHOTO: Screengrab/ETtodayAn elderly man has died a tour bus crashed into a tunnel roof in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Wednesday , HK01 reported that day.

Carrying 27 passengers, the tour bus was driving along a road in the Renwu District of Kaohsiung when the driver came to a stop before a tunnel, China Times reported. The driver is believed to have been unfamiliar with the road when he hit a tunnel with a two-metre height limit. His vehicle was approximately 3.8m high.

 

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