Stavropol, on 27 December. The bus collided on Sunday with the truck on the 283 km of the federal highway “Kavkaz” Andropov district in Stavropol region, according to the website EMERCOM of Russia on the edge. According to media reports, the bus driver was killed.
“As a result of a traffic accident on the 283 km of the federal highway” Kavkaz “passing collision occurred passenger bus” Ikarus “and the truck. There are victims,” - said the Ministry of Emergency Measures.
As specified in the Propaganda Department of Road Safety UGIBDD on the edge, the accident happened early in the morning (5:50 MSK) in the village Kursavka. A regular bus moved from Moscow to Nalchik.
The bus driver died in an ambulance, one of the passengers received serious injuries. Total interior were 32 passengers and two drivers.
The injured were hospitalized in the city hospital of Nevinnomyssk.
The bus driver, in advance, fell asleep at the wheel, “Interfax” a source in the emergency services.
“In the words of the respondents of passengers, the driver for a few minutes before the accident was behaving strangely, as though struggling with sleep. At the time of the accident, he did not react to moving ahead of the truck and did not calculate the distance to it. It does not slowed down and made a passing collision, the information is checked, “- said the source. He said that as a result of the accident injured three people.
The other passengers on the bus sent to the destination.
“A more serious consequences was avoided due to the fact that all the bus passengers were wearing,” – said a source in the STSI.
At the site of the accident staffed emergency services, psychologists MES and traffic police officers. Consequences eliminated 22 people, involving 8 vehicles. Circumstances of the incident are specified.
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