15.11.2026 05:40
While responding to an accident on the Eskişehir ring road involving a car caught in a puddle after rainfall, another car plunged into the scene and hit first the traffic cones, then a traffic police officer and the accident vehicle. Five people, including traffic police, were injured. While it was learned that the injured were not in life-threatening condition, the ring road was closed to traffic for a while.
During the intervention into a property-damage accident involving a car that lost control after being caught in a puddle due to rainfall on the Eskişehir ring road, a traffic police officer and 4 people were injured when another car plunged into the accident scene and hit them, while the ring road was closed to traffic for a while due to the accident.
According to the information obtained, the car with license plate 26 AIT 887, driven by Y.T., was caught in a puddle after the rainfall in the Gündoğdu Neighborhood area of the ring road, at the Alpu Junction underpass in the direction of Ankara, and allegedly lost control. The vehicle crashed respectively into the car with license plate 06 HA 5530 driven by Emir Buğra T. and the light commercial vehicle with license plate 33 BBB 071 driven by B.M., becoming involved in a property-damage accident.
TRAFFIC POLICE INTERVENING IN THE ACCIDENT WERE HIT
Traffic police were dispatched to the scene upon notification. While the teams were taking security measures on the road and intervening, the car with license plate 26 AJB 619, driven by M.K., first hit the traffic cones, then the traffic police officer Y.K., who was intervening in the accident, and finally the damaged vehicle with license plate 26 AIT 887.
5 PEOPLE INCLUDING A TRAFFIC POLICE OFFICER WERE INJURED
In the chain accident that occurred, a total of 5 people were injured, including B.A., who was in the passenger seat of the vehicle with license plate 26 AJB 619, and the traffic police officer on duty.
A large number of medical and police teams were dispatched to the scene. The ring road was closed to traffic and vehicles were directed to alternative routes. After their first interventions at the scene, the injured were taken to various hospitals in the city. It was learned that the injured, who were taken under treatment, were not in life-threatening condition, while an investigation into the accident was initiated.
THE DRIVER DESCRIBED THOSE MOMENTS
Emir Buğra T., a driver involved in the accident who described the moment of the incident, said, "I was going in the middle lane. The car was coming in the left lane. We were at average speeds, around 80-90. Under the bridge, the vehicle was caught by the water. After being caught by the water, it hit me in the middle lane, bounced off me and hit the truck. There was a vehicle in front of me. After hitting the truck, it turned toward the median and hit the median. Then we called the police teams, and the police teams came. After the police teams arrived, just as they put down their traffic cones, we went right in front of the vehicle, and while we were about to talk, another car came from behind or at the end. It hit both the police vehicle and us."