29.05.2026 22:31
25-year-old Emirhan Şahin, who came from Diyarbakır to the İnebolu district of Kastamonu for wedding preparations, lost his life in a horrific traffic accident. In the accident, where the light commercial vehicle driven by Şahin rolled into a 150-meter cliff due to fog and heavy rain, the young driver died at the scene while his fiancée Medine D. and two relatives were injured. The vehicle, which was reduced to scrap, was retrieved from the cliff after a challenging 7-hour operation by rescue teams.
In the Inebolu district of Kastamonu, a light commercial vehicle went out of control due to heavy fog and torrential rain, plunging approximately 150 meters down a cliff. The 25-year-old driver, Emirhan Şahin, who was traveling to the city for wedding preparations, died at the scene, while his fiancée and two siblings in the vehicle were injured. The wrecked vehicle, buried in the cliff, was retrieved after a challenging 7-hour operation by emergency crews.
FOG AND RAIN BROUGHT DISASTER: FIANCÉE AND SIBLINGS INJURED
The accident occurred late at night on the Kastamonu-Inebolu highway near Soluğan village. The light commercial vehicle with license plate 37 ND 152, driven by Emirhan Şahin (25), who had come from Diyarbakır to Inebolu for wedding preparations, veered off the road due to reduced visibility caused by heavy fog and torrential rain. The driver lost control, and the vehicle rolled approximately 150 meters down a cliff, tumbling for meters.
In the terrible accident, driver Emirhan Şahin lost his life at the scene. The vehicle's occupants—his fiancée Medine D. (21), his fiancée's sister Mukadder Beyza D. (20), and his brother Berat D. (14)—were injured.
RESCUE OPERATION WITH CRANE CABLE AND 7-HOUR EFFORT
Emergency teams dispatched to the scene faced difficulties in rescue operations due to the steep and rugged terrain of the cliff. Using the crane cables of a tow truck called to the area, the injured were extracted from the cliff with intense effort and taken to hospitals by ambulance. The body of the deceased young driver was taken to the hospital morgue after investigations.
With daylight, gendarmerie and rescue teams launched an operation to remove the vehicle at the bottom of the cliff. The light commercial vehicle, reduced to a pile of scrap, was pulled up and loaded onto a tow truck after a grueling 7-hour effort in challenging terrain conditions. A judicial investigation into the accident continues.