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Vehicle crash injures 39 in south China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-01 08:54

BEIJING  -- A total of 39 people were injured, including two seriously, after a bus collided head-on with a truck in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Saturday morning, the China News Service reported.

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The accident happened about 7:50 a.m. in Shanglin County when a double-deck bus from Chongqing Municipality crashed into a truck from Henan Province, a witness said.

"I was sleeping at that time. Suddenly a huge clash broke out. I was then thrown out," the assistant driver of the bus, surnamed Zhang, was quoted as saying.

There were 44 people in the bus.

An initial investigation showed that the truck occupied the opposite lane and the bus ran too fast in the rainy weather, said a traffic police officer surnamed Tan.