The 44-year-old tanker truck driver involved in the fatal road accident in Halkidiki has been released on the orders of the competent prosecutor, following the deadly crash that claimed the lives of several members of a vacationing family from Moldova.
The decision to release the driver was made in light of the ongoing police preliminary investigation, which aims to fully determine the circumstances under which the accident occurred. The 44-year-old had been arrested following a head-on collision between the tanker truck and the passenger car carrying the family of four, on the provincial road connecting Nea Moudania and Sithonia.
The preliminary investigation, conducted by the Polygyros Traffic Police Department, is continuing in order to clarify the exact conditions that led to the crash. The accident resulted in the deaths of a 35-year-old father, his 28-year-old wife, and their six-month-old infant daughter. The couple’s 7-year-old daughter is currently hospitalized in critical condition in the ICU of Hippokrateio Hospital.
The young girl is the sole surviving member of the family from the tragic incident, which occurred yesterday at around 6:20 in the evening.
The Hellenic Police (ELAS) issued an earlier statement regarding the accident, which reads as follows:
“Yesterday (July 15, 2026) at approximately 18:20, at the 28.6-kilometer mark of the provincial road between Nea Moudania and Sithonia, a private passenger vehicle driven by a 35-year-old foreign national collided head-on with a commercial freight vehicle driven by a 44-year-old Greek national. The collision resulted in the fatal injury of the 35-year-old driver, a 28-year-old foreign national, and an infant, as well as injuries to a minor child, all of whom were passengers in the first vehicle. The Polygyros Traffic Police Department is conducting a preliminary investigation into the exact causes of the accident.”
