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Eight people were killed and 36 wounded when a bus overturned on Friday on Iran's Qom-Tehran highway, the semi-official ISNA News Agency reported.

The Volvo bus, carrying 44 passengers, was travelling on the key artery from the southeastern province of Kerman towards Tehran at 7:40 AM when the driver fell asleep, local officials told ISNA.

The driver was among those killed.

Iran is one of the deadliest countries in the world for road accidents, according to the World Health Organisation.

In December, a bus carrying students along a mountainous road in northwestern Tehran veered off the road and hit a concrete column, killing 10.

Efforts to modernise Iran's ageing and highly polluting vehicle fleet have been hampered by a lack of investment.

Auto giants Peugeot and Renault have been forced to suspend plans to open new factories in the country due to the return of US sanctions.

© 2019 AFP</s>In Iran, t eight people were killed and 36 injured in a bus accident today. The accident occurred near Iran’s capital Tehran.

A bus, carrying 44 passengers, was travelling on the key artery from the southeastern province of Kerman towards Tehran when the driver fell asleep. The driver was among those killed.

According to the World Health Organisation, Iran is one of the deadliest countries in the world for road accidents.</s>Eight people were killed and 36 wounded when a bus overturned on Friday on Iran's Qom- highway, the semi-official Agency reported.

The bus, carrying 44 passengers, was travelling on the key artery from the southeastern province of towards at 7:40 AM when the fell asleep, local officials told ISNA.

The was among those killed.

is one of the deadliest countries in the world for road accidents, according to the

In December, a bus carrying students along a mountainous road in northwestern veered off the road and hit a concrete column, killing 10.

Efforts to modernise Iran's ageing and highly polluting vehicle fleet have been hampered by a lack of investment.

Auto giants and have been forced to suspend plans to open new factories in the country due to the return of US sanctions.</s>Police say a truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and went off the road around 4:40 a.m. Friday.

They say it happened on Interstate 91 North in Hartford.

Adrian Gardner was the driver of the box truck.

When Gardner went off the road, police say he collided with a guardrail and the truck rolled onto its side.

Gardner was wearing a seat belt and was not injured.</s>Everette Elliott, 49, took over as the driver suffered a medical problem on Interstate 15 south of Salt Lake City, the Utah Highway Patrol said.

He brought the bus to a stop along the side of the highway. About 20 people were on board and no one was seriously hurt. The bus driver, a 30-year-old man, was taken to a hospital. Police don’t believe he was impaired, said Trooper Colton Freckleton.

Elliott was asleep as he rode the bus home from visiting his children in Nevada when he felt the vehicle swaying. He opened his eyes and heard other passengers trying to talk to the driver, but he wasn’t responding.

“He was going from side to side ... it was like in a video game,” Elliott said. He walked up and tried to help, but as he did the bus drifted into a stone wall along the median of the highway, narrowly missing a stopped highway patrol car.

The impact with the wall sent the bus back onto the highway. That’s when Elliott grabbed the wheel.

The other passengers screamed for him to turn off the engine, but he couldn’t find a key, Elliott said. Finally he located a knob and managed to cut the engine as he guided the bus back into the median.

“My adrenaline was pumping. It’s just now starting to slow down,” he said. Greyhound sent a relief bus to take the passengers the rest of the way to Salt Lake City.</s>Provincial police have charged a 61-year-old Temiskaming Shores school bus driver after a crash on Highway 11 Wednesday that injured one person.

OPP said that shortly before 3:30 p.m., a northbound school bus collided with a southbound vehicle near Golf Course Road in Dymond Township.

No students were injured in the crash, but both drivers and one passenger in the vehicle sustained minor injuries.

The bus driver was charged with:
• None Turn - not in safety, contrary to section 142(1) of the Highway Traffic Act (H.T.A.).
A bus overturns on the Qom–Tehran Highway in Iran, killing eight people (including the driver) and injuring more than thirty others. Officials claim the driver fell asleep.