Croatia’s protection minister has been sacked after he apparently prompted a site visitors collision through which one particular person died and he was additionally significantly injured
ByThe Related Press
November 11, 2023, 5:39 AM
FILE – Croatia’s Protection Minister Mario Banozic arrives for a gathering of EU Protection Ministers on the Prague Congress Heart in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. Banozic has been significantly injured in a automotive crash through which one other particular person died. Officers say that the accident occurred round 6 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 on a street in jap Croatia. (AP Photograph/Petr David Josek, file)
The Related Press
ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia’s protection minister was sacked on Saturday after he apparently prompted a site visitors collision through which one particular person died and he was additionally significantly injured.
Protection Minister Mario Banozic was overtaking a truck in unhealthy climate when he crashed right into a van coming from the other way, authorities stated. The van driver died within the crash and Banozic was hospitalized with severe accidents.
“I’ve eliminated Minister Banozic from responsibility of the protection minister, contemplating the extraordinary circumstances,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic stated shortly after preliminary findings have been printed concerning the crash in jap Croatia.
The accident occurred round 6 a.m. on Saturday. Banozic, 44, was driving his private automotive and was touring on his personal.
“We’re expressing our condolences to the household of the one who was killed,” authorities spokesman Marko Milic stated earlier on Saturday on X, previously generally known as Twitter.
The deputy prosecutor within the jap city of Vukovar, Biljana Luburić, stated Banozic’s blood and urine samples have been taken for testing.
In accordance with the crash report, Banozic was overtaking one other car “with out checking if it may be accomplished safely and with out taking into account the climate situations.”
He suffered head and mind contusions, in addition to a number of physique trauma. He remained underneath statement, however his accidents aren’t life-threatening.
Native Index information portal stated Banozic was apparently going searching when he crashed. Images from the scene confirmed Banozic’s automotive turned on its facet subsequent to the badly broken van on a wet and foggy day.
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