The driver of the other car, a 46-year-old Greek man, also died in the collision, police said
The car, with the driver and other 10 passengers, some of them stowed in the trunk, was driving along an older road, away from the border, when it came upon a police checking point, near the city of Alexandroupolis, on Saturday morning. Signalled to stop, it rammed the patrol car that stood in its way and sped away instead.The suspected trafficker entered the Egnatia Highway, northern Greece’s major east-west highway, when it collided head-on with the other car.
Police said firefighters who rushed to the scene had a hard time extricating the people from the cars, which had sustained considerable damage.
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