Accident near Elbasan

TIRANA, June 16 – A bus on Saturday went off a road, injuring nine passengers after another car apparently cut in front of it.
One of the injured was in serious, but not life-threatening, health conditions with fractures, health authorities said. All the injured were taken to the Elbasan hospital which was near, only a few kilometers from the place of the accident.
The bus was carrying 31 militants of recently-created Red-and-Black Alliance political party back from a meeting in the capital Tirana to their hometown of Librazhd, in eastern Albania.
In the village of Qershite, 50 kilometers south of Tirana, along a twisting mountainous road, a car cut in front of the bus, obliging the driver to veer off road, plunging some 10 meters, according to police.
Last month 13 people died in another bus accident in southwestern Albania.
It seemed that was a lucky day for the accident victims. Police have yet to find the vehicle which cut the road but it is also to think whether such busses should be left to drive in that kind of mountainous road.
On the other side the accident almost turned into a political incident as the passengers were party militants just back from their party’s congress in the capital.
Police have put the bus driver, Mithat Bicaku under arrest for allegedly suspecting he may have broken the driving rules.
Forensic experts have yet to present their results of the accident.