Key facts
- Two separate highway accidents in Hungary resulted in a total of eight fatalities.
- The first accident on the M1 highway involved a truck and a construction vehicle, leading to traffic.
- A subsequent crash on the M1 highway saw a minibus carrying nine people collide with the stalled truck.
- Seven people died and two were injured in the minibus crash.
- Prime Minister Peter Magyar indicated the victims of the M1 crash were foreign nationals.
- Police stated the minibus and the truck in the first M1 accident had Moldovan license plates.
Two collisions one after another on a highway in western Hungary early Friday killed eight people, police said. A truck caught fire after colliding with a construction vehicle near the city of Győr around 4:30 a.m., killing one person and snarling traffic, police said. About half an hour later, a minibus with Moldovan license plates slammed into a truck that stopped on the highway following the first accident. The second crash killed seven people and seriously injured two, police said. Authorities closed one lane of the M1 highway toward Austria. Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar expressed condolences to the families of the victims.