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Four-car crash in central Bucharest sends taxi driver to hospital with head injuries

From Adevărul · () Romanian

Translated from Romanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Four cars collided on Bucharest’s Magheru Boulevard after a taxi entered the main road from a side street and was struck by another vehicle.
  • The taxi spun into two cars stopped at a traffic light, and the taxi driver went to hospital with head injuries.
  • Police are reviewing intersection camera footage to determine how the crash happened and who was responsible.

A four-car collision on Bucharest’s Magheru Boulevard sent a taxi driver to hospital with head injuries during the night from Saturday to Sunday.

Several cars were waiting at a traffic light when a taxi emerged from a side street and entered the boulevard. Another driver, travelling in a powerful car, hit the taxi with enough force to make it spin into two vehicles stopped at the lights.

TVR Info reported that the driver believed to have caused the crash had been using the lane reserved for buses, an offence under Romania’s traffic code. While police examined the scene, traffic in the area moved with difficulty on a single lane.

Officers will also check footage from cameras at the intersection to establish exactly how the accident happened and who was at fault.

The impact was so violent that the taxi spun around and hit two other cars stopped at the traffic light.

· TVR InfoThe report described how the initial collision became a four-car crash.
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Originally published by Adevărul in Romanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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