A coach taking heavy metal fans back home after a thrash metal concert in Warsaw last night crashed into an oncoming lorry, killing the driver and injuring 15.

The 22-year old driver of the coach was killed instantly by the collision, with the lorry driver being seriously injured.

A police spokesman from the central town of Lowicz told media that “the coach was going in the direction of Poznan, and just after turning onto the Lodz road the coach hit a lorry head on,” although the “reasons are not yet known.”

55 people were travelling home after the concert at Warsaw’s Bemowo airfield, Wednesday, which saw head-bangers Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax all play on one stage. 14 passengers have been taken to hospitals in the Lowicz region, with the other passengers being cared for in a local school.

“Everyone in the coach was asleep at the time of the accident,” one of the passengers told RMF FM, continuing that “we only remember the coach ‘somersaulting’, nothing else. We all escaped the wreck by smashing through the rear window.” (jb)

Source: TVN24

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