Twenty-two people were injured as a result of the collision the bus with a wagon in the Leningrad region – First Channel

The clinic Petersburg helicopters delivered 10 passengers. 2 people in critical condition – remain in the district hospital of Vyborg.

The clinic Petersburg helicopters delivered 10 passengers. 2 people in critical condition – remain in the district hospital of Vyborg.

Investigators are now trying to find out the circumstances of the accident.

At half past nine in the morning, many tourist bus passengers, drove from St. Petersburg to the Finnish town of Kotka, still asleep. Suddenly from strong blow rained glass and torn up chairs.

“The bus driver ahead saw passenger” Reno, “which has brought, most likely on a slippery track, he was careful not to make the encounter with her, bringing him around and he skidded into the oncoming lane, where riding wagon “, – said the deputy head of administration of the municipality” Vyborg District “of Leningrad region Nikolai Shishkin.

passenger car miraculously touched oncoming truck, the driver escaped with only a couple of scratches.

“The road is very slippery coating is not processed. The road took a lot of time, a familiar track, and then the car just stopped listening to the helm: starts to swing like a pendulum – more and more,” – says driver of the car Eugene Gribkov.

shot hit the back of the bus. Truck cab completely crumpled to get driver’s rescuers had to use special equipment. As pulled from the destroyed interior, Nikita Volkov remembers. He and his wife went on a weekend in neighboring Finland. They wanted to buy a ticket on the train, but the bus was cheaper. The wife is now in intensive care, Nikita just touched the temple.

“He saw the rides have a white van” Scania “, the only thing I managed to – to turn in the direction of his wife, and then was hit, a crash,” – said the injured passengers of the bus Nikita Volkov.

A total of 37 people rode the bus. All the adults except for one 15-year-old. The accident injured 22 people. Ambulances brought the injured to a nearby district hospital Vyborg.

“Seven teams of ambulances were delivered to travmtsentr second level in the Vyborg inter-district hospital. 8 patients were immediately taken to the antishock operating room and they were carried out operations of varying complexity,” – said the chief surgeon of the Leningrad Region Oleg Ergashev.

Five helicopters MOE and regional administration sent today to the hospital of St. Petersburg ten injured in road accidents. Two passengers are in critical condition and will operate directly in the district hospital.

Both unconscious. This 35-year-old woman and 40-year-old man. He just was driving a truck. According to investigators, the driver of the truck in time to begin the process of deceleration and impact it was much weaker than it could be, so the victims managed to escape. Meanwhile, the prosecutor’s office has already begun to test the company’s carrier, which released the bus in flight. In the near future investigation should establish the exact cause of the accident.

Dmitry Zaitsev

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  Twenty-two people were injured as a result of the collision the bus with a wagon in the Leningrad region

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  Near St. Petersburg crashed tourist bus

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  Near St. Petersburg crashed tourist bus

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  Near St. Petersburg crashed tourist bus

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  Near St. Petersburg crashed tourist bus