A 7-year-old child remains in critical condition after a car crash in Halkidiki killed his parents and infant sibling, as the family's vehicle collided with a fuel tanker truck on a provincial road.
The 28-year-old mother and six-month-old infant were pulled dead from the wreckage at the scene, while the 35-year-old father was later declared clinically dead at Polygyros Hospital's emergency department.
Despite what hospital staff described as extraordinary efforts to save him, doctors confirmed that the father, who had been driving, had died.
The surviving child, age 7, suffered severe head injuries. He was initially taken to Polygyros Hospital alongside his father before being transferred to Papageorgiou Hospital in Thessaloniki for further treatment.
According to preliminary information, the crash occurred on the provincial road connecting Nea Moudania and Nikiti, near Metamorfosi in Polygyros.
The family, from Moldova, was vacationing in Greece at the time. The father lost control of the vehicle for reasons that remain under investigation, causing the car to veer off the road and collide head-on with a tanker truck.
The mother and infant were killed instantly. The father and the surviving child were transported in serious condition to Polygyros Hospital.
Firefighters used rescue equipment to extract the mother and infant from the vehicle.
A rapid-response EKAV ambulance motorcycle reached the scene within three minutes, followed six to seven minutes later by three EKAV ambulances that transported the injured to the hospital.