TIANJIN, China, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- At least 61 people have died in recent road collisions in China, including 35 young people on a bus, authorities said.
The bus was traveling in northern China Friday when it rolled over and collided with a car on a Tianjin expressway, killing at least 35 people and injuring 18 others, Xinhua reported.
Wang Qiang, a Tianjin city official with the traffic management bureau, said the bus was speeding and many passengers were thrown from windows onto the road.
Five people were killed Saturday in Zhejiang province after eight trucks crashed into each other on a foggy highway, Xinhua reported. Seven others were injured in the collisions, which were blamed on low visibility.
Ten people died in a 24-car pileup on a foggy road in the eastern Anhui province, the BBC reported. In the central province of Henan, 11 others died when a truck crashed into a van. Both accidents occurred on the last day of a weeklong national holiday.
Nearly 100,000 people die in road collisions in China every year, the U.N. World Health Organization said. Another 500,000 are injured in crashes.
