Within just two months two seriously traffic police Accidents, involving public transport, were marked at different points of Attica. Common denominator in both cases the cause and manner of conflict, as it was attributed to drivers’ sickness.
The first of the traffic was noted at 11:30 on the morning of July 4, 2025 at Karamanlis Avenue in Voula, Attica. In the collision, two buses were involvedwith one of them being parked in a stop and the second falling at the back speed.
As the traffic men of the traffic recorded, the female driver of the bus nailed to what was stopped reported that she was stunned and then lost control of the large vehicle. From the collision 47 people were injured with most of them light.
Yesterday traffic accident around 19:20 in the afternoon between a bus and tram trainsounded an alarm to the competent services. Immediately the police, the Fire Brigade and the EKAB were mobilized. About 30 passengers were slightly injured, 23 of which were transferred to Triassio, KAT hospitals, while a minor child in Children’s Sophia.
And yesterday’s incident has many similarities to Voula. The vehicle of urban transport was stopped on Asia Minor Street in Piraeus and the tram coming from behind it fell on it at a dizzying speed. The tram driver was reportedly fainted after the collision, and a short time earlier he had felt unwell and tachypnea.
“The tram driver felt sick, fell on the BBC (tram handling system). The vehicle has automatic braking, that is, in the controller every 8 seconds we beat our fingers and so it understands that the driver is ok.
Logically when he felt sick, the automatic brakes were activated. At that point the driver fainted, tanned everything, and fell on the lever of attraction and braking, resulting in a collision on the bus, “says Nikos Tsakiropoulos, president of the Driving Association, Nikos Tsakiropoulos.
And he continues: “The driver is currently at the CAT Hospital and is doing preventive examinations to find out to be good. There were no serious injuries, and all drivers can be faced with such situations, even though we pass through medical examinations every year. “