Photo: east newsA minibus carrying 28 people, including 26 schoolchildren, has been stopped by police in the south-eastern Polish village of Jarocin.
The bus was stopped after police were alerted by a concerned resident of the village, and was found to be carrying three times the amount of passengers allowed for such a vehicle.
“It was discerned that the vehicle, which is allowed to carry nine passengers, was carrying three times more,” spokeswoman for the Subcarpathian regional police, Marta Tabasz told journalists. The children were being transported back from classes to homes in the area.
The driver of the minibus has been handed two fines of 100 zloty (25 euro) each: for overburdening the vehicle with excess passengers as well as not obliging passengers to wear seatbelts.
Last week a minivan carrying 18 people crashed head-on with a lorry near Nowe Miasto nad Pilica, central Poland. Everyone travelling in the minivan died. Police have since stepped up controls of overloaded passenger vehicles. (jb)
Source: IAR