Picture: Xiao Yahui/Xinhua via AP

Beijing — The death toll in a head-on collision between a passenger coach and a truck on a highway in central China has risen to 18, with another 14 people injured, police said Saturday. Footage from Friday night's crash in Hunan province, south of the capital Beijing, shows both heavily damaged vehicles on the rain-slicked highway. Speeding, dangerous passing, poorly maintained vehicles and fatigued drivers are most often the cause of serious traffic accidents in China.
18 people were killed and 14 others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in central China.