24.08.2026 13:00
In Serik, Antalya, two people died and three were injured in a collision between two cars. Father Cevdet Durmaz, who was going to work with a garbage truck, collapsed when he saw that the driver who died in the vehicle he ran to help after seeing the accident was his son, Taner. The father, who witnessed his son's final moments, said, 'He opened one eye, then closed it, and his neck dropped to the side.'
In a tragic accident that occurred in the Serik district of Antalya a few days ago, where two cars collided resulting in the deaths of 2 people and injuries to 3 others, a heartbreaking coincidence deeply moved everyone. A father, driving a garbage truck to work for his shift, stopped upon seeing an accident that had happened just 1 minute earlier on their route to help. When he ran to the vehicle, he was devastated to see that the driver who had lost his life was his own son. Recounting the painful coincidence, the father said, "I held my son's head and turned it towards me. He opened one eye, then closed it, and his neck fell to the side."
TWO CARS COLLIDED HEAD-ON The incident occurred last Saturday around 04:42 at the Aspendos Junction on Belek Street in the Serik district. According to the information obtained, the car with license plate 07 AOE 962, driven by Taner Durmaz (31), traveling from the Serik direction towards Belek, collided with the car with license plate 06 EDV 267, driven by a foreign national S.B.U., coming from the opposite direction while making a turn at the junction.
MUNICIPAL STAFF AND THE DISTRICT'S KNOWN MUSICIAN LOST THEIR LIVES Upon reports from those who saw the vehicles turned into scrap metal due to the force of the collision, health, police, and fire brigade teams were dispatched to the scene. Health teams determined that the driver Taner Durmaz, a staff member of the Serik Municipality Parks and Gardens Directorate, and Mustafa Meke (36), a well-known musician of the district in the same vehicle, had died at the scene. The foreign driver S.B.U. and two passengers whose names could not be learned were taken to the hospital with injuries.
THE HORRIBLE ACCIDENT WAS CAPTURED ON CAMERA The moment of the accident that killed 2 people was recorded second by second by a security camera of a workplace. The footage shows the moment when Taner Durmaz's car was making a turn at the junction and the other car coming from the opposite direction entered the junction at high speed and hit the vehicle.
HE RAN TO HELP WITHOUT KNOWING WHO IT WAS The coincidence that emerged after the accident was heartbreaking. Cevdet Durmaz, a father working as a cleaning staff member at the municipality and heading to the construction site with a garbage truck, happened to pass by the scene just 1 minute after the accident, saw it, and stopped to help. The grieving father, who ran to the vehicle upon the warnings of those around him, experienced the biggest shock of his life. When he approached the vehicle and saw that the driver who had lost his life was his son, he was devastated.
The moment the grieving father, Cevdet Durmaz, coincidentally arrived at the scene with the garbage truck just as he and his colleagues started their shift was recorded moment by moment by a workplace security camera.
"WE STOPPED TO HELP, AND I SAW MY SON" The grieving father, Cevdet Durmaz, said, "At the time of the accident, I was going to the construction site. On the way, we came across the scene with the truck. We stopped to help. When we looked around, our friends said, 'Uncle, run, Taner and Mustafa are in the car.' I looked and saw my son Taner and his friend Mustafa lying in the car. It was a coincidence. When I saw it, I fainted and fell to the ground. Then they lifted me up."
Taner Durmaz, a staff member of the Serik Municipality Parks and Gardens Directorate, who lost his life in the accident "I HELD HIS HEAD, HE OPENED HIS EYES FOR THE LAST TIME" Father Durmaz, who witnessed his son's final moments, said, "I held my son's head and turned it towards me. He opened one eye, then closed it, and his neck fell to the side. It's painful; I've never experienced such a coincidence before. May God not show this to anyone. It's a very difficult situation. I hope God will never let me experience such pain again."
Cevdet Durmaz, father of Taner Durmaz, who lost his life in the accident The bodies of Taner Durmaz and Mustafa Meke were buried with tears at the Yazır Cemetery in Serik.