One of the victims of an accident with a bus in the Ryazan region, Zhumabay Kusmanov, spoke about the first minutes after the collision of a vehicle with a bridge support. In an interview with Izvestia on January 2, he clarified that he was currently in the hospital with a head injury.
“At the time of the accident, I was asleep. I woke up from a blow to the head, and my leg was pinched. Something hot poured on my face, I thought it was blood. At first I lost my memory, I didn’t remember anything. Then he sat for two minutes and came to his senses. The electrical equipment went off, it was dark, panic, ”said the man.
According to him, he was returning home from work in Moscow to Volgograd. At the same time, on the road, Kusmanov noticed that the bus driver did not exceed the speed, he was driving 60–70 km / h. He suggested that poor visibility was probably the cause of the accident.
The accident occurred on the 277th km of the P22 “Caspian” highway in the Skopinsky district. The bus hit a rail bridge support. There were at least 50 people in the cabin. According to the latest data, five people died, another 22 were injured, including two minors.
After the accident, a large traffic jam was formed. The Izvestia correspondent specified that the traffic jam stretched for 6 km.
The preliminary cause of the accident with a bus in the Ryazan region was bad weather. According to Izvestia, there is heavy ice in the area of the accident, presumably, the vehicle led and carried it to the support of the railway bridge.
At the same time, the PKU “Uprdor Moscow – Volgograd” reported that the section of the road where the accident occurred was not covered with ice, the road was treated with an anti-icing compound half an hour before the accident.
Law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under Part 5 of Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of traffic rules, resulting in the death of two or more persons”). A case was also initiated under Part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons by negligence”).
Izvestia has received a list of those killed in road accidents.
Source: IZ
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