South Korean mountaineering club members dead after tour bus crash

The passengers on this South Korean bus were the members of a mountaineering club on a trip to enjoy the colorful autumn foliage.

The passengers on this South Korean bus were the members of a mountaineering club on a trip to enjoy the colorful autumn foliage.
Police assumed that the accident took place as the bus driver failed to comply with safe driving rules. The result 22 injured, 4 tourist dead.

Eight of those injured are in serious condition after this large tourist bus flipped on its side on a highway in Daejeon, some 160 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sunday,


The bus carrying 45 passengers, who were heading to Mt. Daedun in South Chungcheong Province from Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, fell sideways after it tried to avoid hitting a car that abruptly cut into its lane.

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Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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