2025 Herat road crash
| 2025 Herat road crash | |
|---|---|
Location of Herat Province within Afghanistan | |
| Details | |
| Date | 19 August 2025 c. 8:30 p.m. AFT (UTC+04:30) |
| Location | Guzara District, Herat Province, Afghanistan |
| Coordinates | 34°10′21″N 62°04′57″E / 34.1725°N 62.0825°E |
| Incident type | Head-on and multi-vehicle collision (bus, motorcycle and truck) |
| Cause | Under investigation; excessive speed of the overcrowded bus (according to police) |
| Statistics | |
| Bus | Type "580" |
| Vehicles | 3 |
| Passengers | Unknown (deported Afghans from Iran) |
| Deaths | At least 79 |
| Injured | 2 |
On 19 August 2025, a passenger bus carrying deported migrants from Iran caught fire after it collided with a motorcycle and a fuel truck and veered off a road in Guzara District, Herat Province, Afghanistan, killing at least 79 people, including 19 children, and injuring two others. It was one of the country's deadliest road crashes of the decade.