Two girls and a 60-year-old woman who sustained worst injuries in a Czech bus accident on the Zagreb-Split motorway on Saturday, are stable and no longer in critical condition, said sources from the Zagreb hospitals in Sunday. The three patients were transferred to Zagreb from the Gospic hospital after the crash.
Eight passengers died and over 40 were injured when the Czech bus, driving towards the Croatian coast, crashed into a safety fence on the Zagreb-Split motorway near the Krpani tunnel in the Zadar hinterland about 3.50 am on Saturday. One of the fatalities was a seven-year-old child.
One of the girls, who are twins, and the elderly woman, who are being treated in the Zagreb hospitals, can now be transported to the Czech Republic if they wish so, while the other girl is still in the intensive care unit after she went surgeries because of multiple fractures on her legs. Her twin sister is stable and conscious.
According to the hospitals' sources, the parents visited their daughters yesterday.
Of the 40 injured passengers who were retained in the Gospic hospital where they were admitted immediately after the crash, 25 will be discharged during Sunday and they will be transported to their homeland on a Czech military plane which is expected in Zadar.
Czech Ambassador in Croatia Karel Kuehnl said that the Czech government had sent the aircraft and medical teams including psychologists earlier in the day.
Several Czech patients whose condition does not allow transportation will be still in Gospic.
The ambassador also recalled that some of the Czech tourists on that bus might have lost their documents in the tragic accident and that they would be provided with temporary documents in that case.
