Continued: death toll in road accident in Tatarstan has increased to 14
The culprit with 13 dead in Tatarstan became a bus driver. On Sunday, July 2, reported on the website of the Republican interior Ministry.
“The bus driver in 1961 collided with moving in the passing direction the truck towed on a rigid hitch car KAMAZ. After the impact the bus overturned and caught fire”, — stated in the message.
Criminal case as regards 5 articles 264 of the criminal code (“Violation of traffic rules and operation of vehicles, entailed on imprudence death of two or more persons”).
RIA Novosti with reference to Deputy head of the regional Department of the Investigative Committee Elvira Gazizova announces the initiation of the second business — part 3 of article 238 of the criminal code of Russian Federation (“Rendering services not meeting requirements of safety of life and health of consumers, entailed on imprudence death of two or more persons”).
Gazizova added that according to one version, the bus driver was blinded by the headlights of the truck.
The accident occurred on the night of July 2 at the 52nd kilometer of the route Almetyevsk — Zainsk. The bus in which there were 28 people, followed from Samara to Izhevsk. After the collision, it started a fire. According to preliminary data, the victims were 13, 15 injured (12 of them were hospitalized).