The accident occurred on Saturday at 11.45 MSK on the 746th kilometer of the federal highway “Kavkaz” in Dagestan. According to preliminary data, the driver at fault in the accident, “Tiger”, which lost control and drove into the oncoming lane, where collided with long-distance minibus “Gazelle”. This worked out and Other version, according to which an armored car can leave their band after it cropped unknown passenger car. On information Source TASS armored car “Tiger”, got in an accident, belongs to the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service in Dagestan. The press service of the Dagestani Interior Ministry confirmed the fact of the accident agency, without providing details of what happened.
Data on the number of victims vary continuously changing upwards. If at first the media reported two dead and 13 injured, further news agency reported three victims and 20 wounded – one of the wounded died of his injuries in hospital.
On unconfirmed reports, among the victims – eight employees of the Dagestan FPS. Armored military jeep allegedly returned to Khasavyurt from Makhachkala, where the official event took place.
The photographs and video recordings of witnesses to the accident scene shows that the “Gazelle” had a much more severe damage compared to the heavy “Tiger”. Minibus from the impact was completely mangled. Cab and much of interior as a result of the blow was almost completely crushed – with such injuries surprising that the victims were three.
Such serious deformation can be explained not only by the high speed at which the collision occurred, but also the weight of the armored car, as well as the fact that it is equipped with so-called kenguryatnik – construction of metal pipes, which is attached to front of the body for protection in a collision. On the civilian cars to install “kengooryatniki” is prohibited.
Damage and received military vehicle, which deformed the hood bumper is damaged, punctured wheels and broken light. From impact armored car was thrown into a ditch, while the “Gazelle” was left on the roadway.
The local people are actively discussing the incident in social networks, noting that the section of the highway in the Khasavyurt district is abnormally dangerous – on a narrow road drivers move at an average speed of 100 km / h, and the drivers of local minibuses go even faster.
Serious accidents involving armored vehicles in general and the “Tigers” in particular, occur regularly in recent years. For example, in Rostov-on-Don in September 2014 “Tiger” running drunken commando GRU cross the intersection at a red light and hit a car Kia. Heavy military vehicle moved a foreign car, dragging her for a few meters. The driver and passenger legkovushki died from his injuries on the spot. Next, the driver of “Tiger” has tried to leave with the scene of the accident, but after about 300 meters rammed several parked cars, knocked down trees and then crashed into a massive brick fence of a private house.
A total of eight cars rammed an armored car, without receiving severe injuries. Commando was sentenced to five years in a penal colony.
In the months prior to this event, in the course conducted near the border with Ukraine in April military exercises in the same Rostov region took two serious accidents . In one of them the driver of the APC, following in the column went into the oncoming lane, collided with VAZ-2105. The accident killed two people who were in the “Zhiguli” and manage armored vehicle driver.
In another accident, the driver-mechanic combat vehicle was unable to miss from standing by the side of the machine DPS. Located next to the police car the man died on the spot. Standing next to the traffic police was seriously injured.
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