MOSCOW, 11 August. /TASS/. Five people died and 13 were injured as a result of a bus falling off a cliff on the Alushta-Feodosiya highway in Crimea.
This was reported to TASS in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea. "According to our data, five people were killed, 13 passengers of the bus were injured. In total, there were 19 people on it," the press service said.
Victims with injuries of varying severity were sent to hospitals in Sudak and Feodosia. It is known that the bus followed the route Sudak - Kerch, the accident occurred near locality Twitter.
Rescuers, doctors and representatives of the investigating authorities are working at the scene. The causes of the accident are being established. According to one version, the driver lost control of the turn.
The traffic police in the Crimea reported that the route where the accident occurred was not blocked, traffic was carried out on it as usual.
The investigating authorities opened a criminal case into the death of people. The UK noted that the regular bus brand "PAZ" fell from a 50-meter cliff.
The head physician of the Feodosia hospital, Viktor Simonenko, told TASS that three children were delivered in serious condition. "Three children were admitted to the hospital, they are in serious condition. Four more adults (injured) are expected to arrive," Symonenko said.
dangerous track
According to tourists and social media users, the Feodosia-Sudak highway in the area where the accident occurred has many dangerous and difficult sections with sharp turns and cliffs, in some sections visibility is significantly limited, which is the cause of frequent accidents.
IN summer season the traffic here is especially busy, since the road, passing through Koktebel, connects two popular tourist cities of the Crimea.
Ministry of Emergency Situations opened a hotline
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Crimea opened hotline for relatives of those killed and injured in road accidents with by passenger bus near Feodosia.
In Crimea, they are investigating the circumstances of an accident with a passenger bus that fell off a cliff on a highway near Feodosia the night before. Six people died. Doctors are fighting for the lives of the victims. This section of the road is considered quite dangerous, there are many sharp turns, one of them became fatal.
R-29 is one of the most winding mountain roads in Crimea. In summer, the intensity of traffic here increases many times over. The route connects several large resort cities at once - Alushta, Sudak, Koktebel, Feodosia. The regular bus was heading from Sudak, and on sharp turn, at 90 degrees, the driver, obviously losing control - signs of braking on the pavement are visible, literally crushed, knocked down a metal barrier and flew off a steep cliff.
Investigative actions at the scene of the tragedy that occurred the night before are still ongoing. Rescuers and forensic experts are combing every meter - passengers' clothes and fragments of the bus are scattered hundreds of meters around. There is no official version of what happened yet.
There were 19 passengers and a driver in the Etalon bus. Crimeans, as well as residents of Volgograd, St. Petersburg, Chita, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Kyiv. Yuri Krivokhizhin, together with his wife and two grandchildren, were returning home to Volgograd after a vacation. He barely remembers the moment of the accident.
“We realized that the driver can no longer turn on the speed and we do not fit into the turn and go into the abyss. People started screaming in the bus, a strong blow. I started looking for grandchildren. First he found his grandson, he was hanging on the belts, and then the granddaughter, she was thrown out through the glass, ”says the injured Yuri Krivokhizhin.
“At the time of the accident, the child was sleeping on my lap, daughter, I raised my head when the bus entered the turn, and I realized that the speed was too high and it would not go there - that’s it, I pressed the child, then they pulled me out of there,” recalls the injured Vladimir Chepikov.
So far, it has not been possible to establish the names of one dead girl and one survivor. Among the 14 victims were six children.
“Six children aged from five to approximately 17 years old were delivered. Why is it tentatively the eldest child, we do not know the exact data, the child has not been identified. Of the six children, four were in a serious and extremely serious condition, ”said Eduard Pyankovsky, chief physician of the Feodosia Children's Hospital.
In the hospitals of Sudak and Feodosia, where the victims were urgently hospitalized, they were provided with all the necessary assistance. Patients in extremely serious condition were transported to Simferopol at night, to republican centers for high-tech assistance.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article “Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of more than two persons through negligence.” It is known that the driver of the bus was experienced driver with seventeen years of experience. He is in extremely critical condition. Local residents say that on this section of the road, accidents fatal occur frequently. Visibility on the winding serpentine is extremely limited.
“My neighbor was somehow killed here too. The driver was riding a motorcycle, she was sitting in the back, and the car also took out the same way as the bus, and he just hit her. He had traumatic brain injuries, and she died,” says local resident Vladimir Goncharov.
"Many people come, they don't know the road, they start to overtake," says local driver Grigory Potapov.
The Crimean authorities plan to equip the Sudak-Feodosia highway with fencing and analyze all dangerous roads on the peninsula. Relatives of the dead and injured as a result of the accident will be provided with material assistance.
After the crash of the Etalon passenger bus in Crimea, a criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of Russia - "the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, negligently resulting in the death of more than two persons." The maximum penalty under this article is up to ten years in prison.
As Gazeta.ru was informed in the Republic of Crimea, the accident occurred on Thursday around 17.05-17.20 on a mountain road between Sudak and Feodosia - a regular bus followed the route Sudak - Kerch. At the rounding of the road, the driver lost control, allowed to leave the carriageway and fell into a cliff from a 50-meter height, ”the department said.
As a result of the bus crash, according to the latest data, six people were killed. Two of them died from their injuries in the hospital.
About 20 more people were injured varying degrees gravity, including three children - fourteen, eight and five years old.
Fire and rescue units and other emergency response services went to the accident site immediately after receiving the message to release people and eliminate the consequences of the accident. More than 100 people and 25 pieces of equipment were involved in the liquidation of the incident.
From the footage from the scene of the accident and the subsequent rescue of people, it can be seen that most of the victims are dressed in light summer clothes.
The doctors loaded the victims on special stretchers and provided them with first aid - they put splints on fractures, bandaged wounds and abrasions.
As specified in the traffic police, all the victims, accompanied by police cars with flashing lights, were sent to the hospitals of Feodosia and Sudak.
The head of Crimea has already expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. “A terrible tragedy occurred in Crimea: a passenger bus crashed, people died. I express my most sincere and deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Wish get well soon injured. All necessary assistance will be provided to the victims of the accident, ”Aksenov is quoted as saying. official site Crimean government.
Accident rate in Crimea is growing
Recall that
road accident rate in Crimea in 2016.
In January-March of this year, the number of accidents with dead and injured increased by more than one and a half times. As a result, Crimea leads among the regions with negative dynamics in the number serious accidents. Local officials and activists attribute the worsening situation to bad roads, large-scale work to repair them, power outages and the lack of initiative of the traffic police.
One of the loudest accidents in the region was the collapse of a section of the new Simferopol bypass road in September 2014. At the beginning of June, the prosecutor's office of the republic demanded to resume the investigation of the case. The department considered it impossible to terminate the criminal case against the suspects due to the amnesty and canceled the decision of the Investigative Committee.
Meanwhile, the accident with a passenger bus in the Crimea was just one of many that have occurred in Russia in recent times.
So, the day before in Komi, which slid into a ditch and rolled over several times. There were no fatalities in the accident, but all children were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity. According to one version, the driver lost control on a sharp turn, according to another, the driver was moving away from frontal collision with a timber carrier that flew into the oncoming lane.
On July 13, in Dagestan, nine people died and 26 others were injured in an accident involving a regular bus loaded with potatoes. According to the preliminary version, a trailer with vegetables broke away from him and flew into a bus passing by. Before the accident, the truck driver was detained at the weight control point and a violation report was drawn up. However, he did not get rid of the excess cargo and left on the route to Makhachkala.
There was a major accident involving a bus. Regular bus with passengers fell off a 50 meter cliff. So far, seven people have died.
The regular bus followed the route Sudak - Kerch. At about 17:20 Moscow time, on the highway Alushta - Feodosiya, near the village of Shchebetovka, for reasons not yet established, the driver lost control, after which the bus collapsed into a cliff, the depth of which is 50 meters. At the time of the accident in vehicle There were 19 passengers, including children. At first it was said about four dead, but then the number of victims of a major accident increased to seven people. Other victims were hospitalized in the hospitals of Sudak and Feodosia, seven of them are in serious condition.
Chapter municipality Feodosia city district Svetlana Gevchuk said: “Another person died in the Sudak hospital. Last name, first name and where you come from, we do not say. Thus, on this moment Seven people died, including one child.
102 people and 25 pieces of equipment were involved in the elimination of the consequences of the accident. On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under part 3 of Art. 238 "The provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, which negligently caused the death of more than two persons."
In Crimea, the bus fell off a cliff on August 11, 2016 video
Bus fell off a cliff in Crimea
The UK and the Ministry of Emergency Situations report four dead, according to other sources, there were five. Many passengers were seriously injured. It is specified that the accident occurred on a section of the highway near the village of Shchebetovka. Video from the scene has surfaced online.
On August 11, four, according to other sources, five people died and 13 were injured as a result of bus falling off a cliff on the highway Alushta-Feodosiya in the Crimea. This is reported by TASS with reference to sources in the emergency services of the republic.
The accident occurred on the 50th kilometer of the R-29 highway " Alushta-Sudak-Feodosia» near the settlement Shebetovka.
“The passenger bus ran into a ditch and fell off a cliff. As a result, five people died and 13 were injured,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported four dead, without specifying the number of victims.
“According to our data, four people died in an accident, according to preliminary data. There could be up to 20 people on the bus. Information about the victims is being specified," the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
Victims with injuries of varying severity were sent to hospitals in Sudak and Feodosia. The bus followed the route Sudak-Kerch.
Rescuers, as well as representatives of the investigating authorities, left for the scene. The causes of the accident are being established. According to one version, the driver lost control.
“There is a rise of those passengers who were on the bus. According to operational data, 15 people left Kerch, how many were planted in Koktebel, there is no information yet. The depth of the abyss is not yet known, we are leaving for the place, ”said Svetlana Gevchuk, head of the Feodosiya City Council. According to her, it's about regular bus in which tourists could move.
“There is a really difficult track there, drivers who do not know it could not cope with the control,” Svetlana Gevchuk noted.
The head doctor of the Feodosia hospital, Viktor Simonenko, said that three children were hospitalized in a serious condition.
“Three children were admitted to the hospital, they are in serious condition. The arrival of four more adult victims is expected,” the head physician said.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the incident. The department also reports four deaths.
“On August 11, at about 17:20, the driver of a PAZ bus, following the route Sudak-Kerch, in the area of the Kizil-Tash tract, allowed it to overturn into a cliff about 50 meters deep. As a result of the crash, four passengers died, 11 passengers, as well as the driver, received injuries of varying severity,” the Sledkom said in a statement.
The case was opened under Part 3 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of Russia (the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of more than two people by negligence).
The media report five dead, including two residents of Stavropol and Krasnodar at the age of 67, as well as a 37-year-old Petersburger. Two more are being identified.
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