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Cruel brow
In the Zelenogradsk district, on the road from Pereslavsk to Yantarn, a passenger bus and a truck collided.
The truck driver was killed, as well as five bus passengers, including a nine-year-old boy.
According to preliminary data, the culprit of the accident is the bus driver (also seriously injured). For some reason, he drove into the oncoming lane of traffic and blocked a truck carrying sand.
“A shocking fact. The bus is almost new, technically neat. The driver is experienced and has been with us for two decades,” said a spokesman for the passenger company Regio-Express.
Kaliningrad residents, who shared their views on social media about the possible causes of the accident, mostly blamed bus drivers, who allegedly behaved arrogantly on city streets and on rural roads, exceeding the speed and maneuvered dangerously.
Shocking event. The bus is almost new, technically neat. The driver is experienced and has worked for us for two decades.
Among the victims are children
The last time a painful traffic accident affected Kaliningrad in the fall of 2017.
On the way to Nesterov, the Mercedes ML SUV collided with a passenger minibus. Seven people died and nine were injured. Three people in the van, including a 10-year-old girl, were not injured.
The owner of the Mercedes ML was found to be at fault for the accident, but the driver of the minibus, carrying more passengers than allowed, was also violated by the rules – fifteen.
Kaliningrad residents still remember the disaster of 2006, when an empty gasoline, a tow tractor and two cars collided on a detour in the city. This time six people were killed, including two young children.
Even more tragic was the 2001 event. Near Cherniachovsk, at a railway crossing near the town of Ovražna, a passenger bus violated traffic regulations. Eight people died at the crash site, six at the hospital, and ten passengers were injured.
Stuck at the junction
Traffic accidents involving bus or minibus passengers are common in Russia. The causes of accidents are not only non-compliance with traffic regulations, but also driver fatigue during overtime.
In 2017, in Vladimir Oblast, near the city of Pokrov, a bus with tourists from Uzbekistan got stuck at a railroad crossing early in the morning. They were crushed by a passenger train. Seventeen people died.
Fifteen people were killed and eighteen injured in a fire and a Kia Granbird bus that exploded from a bridge to the river last year in Užbaikal, on the way to Chita.
In February 2019, in Kaluga County, the driver of a bus in which a children’s dance ensemble was traveling arrived late and exceeded the speed limit. The bus went off the road and turned around. Three children and four adults died, and 31 members of the ensemble were treated at the hospital.
In July this year, a minibus driver fell asleep on the road to Simferopol. The car went into the opposite lane and crashed into a truck. Nine passengers died.
Run down the canal
One of the worst bus crashes in the world occurred in 2008 and 2012 in Egypt.
In the first case, 55 people died, in the second, 51.
In December 2008, the driver of a bus carrying tourists, trying to avoid a collision with a truck on a narrow road, did not control his vehicle and fell into a deep channel.
2012 In November, the driver of a passenger bus decided to run with a train, which would reach the level crossing earlier. The locomotive was faster. Most of the more than fifty victims of the bus were children.
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