The Baku–Gazakh motorway minibus crash occurred on November 4, 2007 at about 22:30

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(18:30

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) in the

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, on the 51st kilometre of Baku–

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. The crash became the country's worst

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of the decade. A

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, carrying twenty persons on their way back from a wedding, slammed into a parked Kamaz truck, laden with stones. Fourteen people including the driver died. Four of those killed were children and six were women, and four other people were injured. The injured were taken to a military hospital in

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. The Qaradağ police office instituted a criminal proceeding on article 263.3 (violating traffic rules and usage of vehicles, causing death of two or more persons) of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan.

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