On the morning of January 29, a bus transporting teenagers from a children's hockey team after competitions in Novouralsk collided with a car. As a result of the accident, four people were killed and two were injured. The driver and passengers of the car died on the spot, the hockey coach died later – in the ambulance. The Investigative Committee began checking the incident. Read more about what happened in the Izvestia article.
A terrible accident in the Sverdlovsk region: what happened to the bus from Novouralsk, victims
An accident involving a passenger bus and a Citroën car occurred on Monday, January 29, at approximately 9:30 am on the road towards the village of Verkh-Neyvinsky, not far from the Yekaterinburg – Nizhny Tagil – Serov highway. The bus was transporting a teenage hockey team to Novouralsk after competitions in the Chelyabinsk region. In total there were 18 teenagers, as well as a coach and driver.
“Six people were injured in a traffic accident, three of whom died at the scene of the accident – the driver and passengers of the CITROEN car,” says a statement from the Sverdlovsk Region Prosecutor’s Office, published in Telegram channel.
It later became known that the hockey coach died from injuries in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. In addition, two 15-year-old teenagers were injured and were hospitalized. According to the first official reports from the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region, one child was hospitalized at Central Medical Unit No. 31 of Novouralsk, the second was taken to a medical facility in Yekaterinburg.
According to Telegram channel Ural Mash, one of the teenagers injured in the accident, received a closed head injury and a fracture of the forearm. The second teenager suffered broken ribs.
The number of victims is currently being determined. The rest are receiving medical attention at the scene.
The identities of the four victims have already been established, the traffic police of the Sverdlovsk region reported. This is the driver of a Citroën foreign car born in 1993, two passengers of the car – a man born in 1971 and a woman born in 1980, all of them were residents of Novouralsk. The woman lived in Yekaterinburg and was a realtor. They were traveling to the capital of the Urals to finalize a real estate transaction.
The coach of the children's hockey team of the Novouralsk Olympic Reserve School, born in 1957, also died. Traffic police inspectors are establishing the exact number of victims as a result of the collision. All children on board the bus were born in 2008.
Traffic on the road section was stopped to remove the bus and foreign car from the ditch. It has now been resumed.
Investigation of the circumstances of the accident
According to preliminary data, the accident occurred as a result of a burst tire on a Yutong bus. After that, he drove into the oncoming lane and collided head-on with a car.
As the head of the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Valery Gorelykh explained, both vehicles slid into a ditch due to a strong impact. “Currently, both the bus and the foreign car are being removed using special vehicles. Based on the results of the ongoing proceedings, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will make a well-founded procedural decision,” said the head of the press service of the Sverdlovsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Valery Gorelykh.
In order to get the children out of the cabin, rescuers had to break out the bus windows.
“He dragged the car about fifty meters. Everyone in the car died,” reported eyewitness to the E1.RU portal. A large number of photos and videos from the scene of the incident have already appeared on the Internet. They show the condition of the car.
According to the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region, Nevyansk city prosecutor Egor Kornilov went to the scene of the incident. Now there are several State Traffic Inspectorate squads working there.
“The prosecutor’s office will assess the legality of the procedural decision that will be made by police officers based on the results of the pre-investigation check,” the statement says.
As Valery Gorelykh explained, a procedural check has been organized to determine the possible presence in the situation of signs of a crime under Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life and health of consumers).”
It is also reported that the prosecutor's office will conduct an investigation into the implementation of federal legislation on road safety and transport safety when transporting children. At the same time, an inspection will be carried out, during which it is necessary to find out whether the bus undergoes a pre-trip inspection, and the driver undergoes a medical examination.
At the moment, the more precise circumstances of the accident are being clarified on the spot.
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