Konginkangas bus disaster
Äänekoski bus disaster happened in March 19 2003 in Äänekoski, Finland. In around clock 2 AM a bus transfering 38 passengers to Ruka for do slalom skiing crashed to a truck which had onboard heavy paper rolls of total about 38 tonns 20 km north of Äänekoski. The accident which happened in highway Four, left dead 23 passengers of which youngest were 14 years. And addition 15 passengers injured, the youngest were 12 years old. After that the driver and youth travel company's executive director dead. Most of the victims were sleeping and dead immediately when paper rolls rolled inside the bus.
The go of the accident went so that the trailer of the truck began to shake in a bit down-way road in so icy road than a mirror. The trailer first turned to right to watercource and after that landscape orientation to the road. The bus coming from South collided with the trailer. Five 780 kg weighted paper rolls rolled inside the bus. Paper rolls crashed the front side of the bus completely.
