“Visuals of a road accident caused by the recent earthquake in northwest Turkey”
What FACTLY found
The video shared in the post shows the visuals of a traffic accident involving 12 vehicles at the Mecidiyeköy location in the Sisli district of Istanbul, Turkey. The incident took place at 1:20 am on 23 November 2022, on the D-100 highway in Mecidiyeköy. But, the earthquake of magnitude 5.9 shook the Duzce Province at 4:08 am on the same day. The accident shown in the video took place three hours prior to the earthquake that took place in the Duzce Province of northwest Turkey
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 November 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 1 December 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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