This is the horrific moment a couple and their teenage children lost their lives after their car plunged off a bridge into a lake.
Veysel Aydogmus, 37, was driving the white vehicle with his wife Emine Aydogmus, 35, and their children Batuhan, 16, and Mete, 13, as the family headed for a picnic in Turkey.
But in a tragic turn of events, the car ended up going off the road in heavy traffic on a two-way bridge across the Seyhan Dam lake in Adana.
CCTV footage shows the family car driving slowly amid a line of other vehicles on July 21, moments before the tragic accident.
As a line of cars prepared to overtake a slow-moving vehicle, Veysel was seen speeding up as well, but headed directly into the path of a car passing him from behind.
A family of four has died after a father lost control of his car, crashing through a barrier and off a bridge into a lake in Turkey.
Veysel Aydogmus, 37 (top right), pictured with his wife Emine, 35 (top left) and their two sons Batuhan, 16 (bottom right) and Mete, 13 (bottom left) before the accident.
When he noticed the vehicle, he apparently panicked and tried to reverse, eventually losing control of the vehicle.
After his car spun out of control for a moment, it veered to the right and crashed into a barrier on the side of the bridge.
Local media reported that Veysel, a restaurant manager, Emine and her two teenage sons died in the accident.
Several fire, police and submarine crews were dispatched to the scene after horrified onlookers raised the alarm.
According to the Turkish newspaper Kozan ExpressAfter four hours of searching, the lifeless bodies of Emine, Veysel and Mete were found after being removed from the car.
Batuhan was later recovered after it was revealed that he had jumped out of the car during the accident but sank further into the lake because he did not know how to swim.
The car was lifted back onto the bridge by a crane as relatives of the family rushed to the scene after receiving the tragic news.
The Aydogmus family was later buried together in the village of Kizillar in the Kozan district of Adana.
Mete, 13, was the first of the children to be recovered after the accident, as he was found in the sunken vehicle.
Local reports said Batuhan was later found trying to jump out of the vehicle during the accident but he did not know how to swim.
Pictured: Veysel Aydogmus and Emine Aydogmus before they died on July 21.
The family car was recovered from the Seyhan Dam lake in Adana after a four-hour rescue mission.
Veysel’s nephew, Kemal Aydogmus, later blamed the bridge’s inadequate safety barriers for the deaths.
He said: ‘The biggest problem we noticed afterwards was that the barriers were in a neglected state.
‘They were joined together with rusty nuts from below, reinforced with welding and then painted.
‘We want this resolved immediately.
“Our loved ones have passed away. We don’t want anyone else to suffer.”
Police and security experts are investigating the accident, local media reported.
