Honduras and Venezuela

A  reverse image search on Yandex  of the photo of the yellow bus reveals that the crash actually occurred in Honduras in February 2017, more than seven years ago.  Fox News  covered the incident, which left 15 dead , and the caption of the photo illustrating the story, which is of the same incident but taken from a different angle, provides the name of the person who took it: Fernando Antonio, for the American news agency  AP .

A search of the photo section of that outlet  revealed the photograph used in the post  circulating on social media to announce the alleged accident that “just occurred.” The description reads: “Emergency personnel responded to an accident involving a cargo truck and a bus on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Sunday, February 5, 2017.”

“The cargo truck crashed into the bus on the highway outside the Honduran capital on Sunday, killing more than a dozen people, authorities said,” it added.

As for the second image, which shows a burning bus, a  reverse image search on Google Lens  returns  several  posts  that place the photo on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, in mid-December 2023. That’s eight months ago. According to reports,  at least 30 people died .

While the Facebook post doesn’t specify where the incident occurred, it’s logical that the “massive accident that left 34” dead would be the same.

As for the link that supposedly leads to the video showing the accident,  it opens a website  that offers a supposed weight-loss remedy.

At  elDetector, we  ‘ve verified posts that  falsely  reported  accidents   and directed readers to click on a link that would take them to the full information, but instead directed them to an unrelated website. This is what’s known as  clickbait  , and its purpose is to attract visitors to a website through eye-catching text. These visits can be converted into revenue.