Konginkangas bus disaster

When

19 Mar 2004

Kind

Road accident

Coordinates

62.78° N, 25.78° E

Description

major traffic accident in Äänekoski, Finland, on 19 March 2004

Deaths

23

Injured

15

Cause

black ice, velocity

2004 traffic accident in Äänekoski, Finland

The Konginkangas bus disaster was a major road traffic crash on 19 March 2004, outside the village of Konginkangas in Äänekoski, Central Finland. At 02:08 local time, a bus transporting 38 passengers, most of them youths, to the Rukatunturi skiing center for an alpine ski trip crashed into a full-trailer truck carrying heavy paper rolls weighing about 61.5 tonnes total.

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