The owner of the “Eurasian Corporation bus” Fania Khakimova commented on the incident in Tatarstan of an accident involving a bus belonging to the company, in which 14 people died. On Sunday, July 2, informs “Interfax”.
“Bus 2008 release, leave our motor control [the Central bus station of Samara], in excellent condition was this bus. (…) The best crew, the driver of one of the best,” said Khakimov, noting that he did not know how could happen such accident.
She also complained that the carrier failed to inspect the burned-out bus. In addition, law enforcement officers, according to her, reportedly refused to see the tape recorder of the vehicle.
A passenger bus EN route from Samara to Izhevsk in the night of July 2 faced with moving in the passing direction the truck MAN, which was towed by KAMAZ. According to the Deputy head of the Main Department of organization of safety of traffic of the Ministry of internal Affairs Sergey Dobryakova, in case of accident the bus fell off the right front wheel and he fell on his side. Because of this, fired up the gas tank, the fire spread through the cabin for a few seconds, and the door was locked.
The victims were 14 people. In fact the incident was filed two criminal cases, arrested the General Director of “Eurasian Corporation bus” Oksana Nikitina, as well as the truck driver and one of the drivers of the bus (his partner is in the hospital; the police took the man into custody, to avoid lynching by the relatives of the victims of the accident).