Four people died and a woman is fighting for her life after a head-on crash between a car and an SUV on the road between Corum and Iskilip in Turkey at about 00:30. The crash happened in the Ceritbeli area. A woman was driving the car, licence plate 19 AHJ 649, and a man was at the wheel of the SUV, plate 19 DR 008.
Both drivers and a woman passenger in the car died at the scene. Fire crews, medics and gendarmerie officers went there. Two injured people were pulled from the vehicles and taken to Erol Olcok Training and Research Hospital at Hitit University. One of them, a man who was engaged to the woman driving the car, died despite doctors' efforts. The couple had got engaged on Monday. The woman is in a life-threatening condition.
The bodies of the four are in the morgue of the same hospital. The couple's families are in mourning. The gendarmerie examined the scene, and the investigation continues.