According to early reports from the Hellenic Police, the Ukrainian driver of the truck may have failed to see two cars ahead due to dense fog in the area.

Five pedestrians, including three children, have been seriously injured after a speeding car veered off course, crashing into the hapless groupoutside a toy store in Athens.

Seven are dead and five are injured in a car accident that occurred late at night on the Egnatia Odos at the height of Alexandroupolis.