Court expert: If there are no signs of braking, the driver must have fallen asleep

The causes of the bus accident near Slavonski Brodi in Croatia, who left ten Kosovo Albanians dead, are still being investigated, but a road traffic expert doubts the cause of the accident may have been the crash of the bus driver's sleep.

Stanko Smodlaka, a road traffic expert in Croatia who offers expertise to the Split Court, has told the newspaper “Slobodna Dalmacija” that there are several causes that could cause the accident.

But he believes that accidents that occur in the early hours of the morning usually have a cause - fatigue.

I don't know the details of this tragedy, but if it's determined there's no trace of road brakes and slides, then a hundred percent driver has gone to sleep”, Smodlaka said.

If there's no trace on the sidewalk, then this would also rule out the possibility that the tire exploded, because if this had happened, there should have been signs on the sidewalk. Accidents like this, which occur in the early hours of the morning, are because people sleep, especially if they drive all night”, said Stanko Smodlaka, expert on road traffic expertise.

Ten people were killed and dozens more were injured by the Frankfurt-Pristina bus accident on Sunday morning, near Slavonski Brod in Croatia.

Last night, Croatia's Prime Minister, Andrej Plenković and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti visited the injured at the General Hospital, Slavonski Brod, in which those injured by Kosovo are being treated.