The tragedy was due to the fact that the driver decided to skip the "red light", but the bus suddenly died out at the most inopportune moment, frozen on the tracks. To avoid being under the wheels of the train, the driver left the "steering wheel" and went to push the car. Soon he was joined by several passengers. The rest of the majority peacefully dozed in the cabin, not realizing the threat of life. The clock was still not even three o'clock in the morning. All attempts to shift transport from the tracks were unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, the passenger train was already carrying a passenger train St. Petersburg - Nizhny Novgorod. When the train was only a few tens of meters away, the shift attendant screamed "Train! A train! ". The people pushing the bus rushed to the loose. Arrived at the emergency services found a terrible apartment:

within a radius of tens of meters from the place of accidents were scattered personal belongings of passengers - bags, bags and clothes. From the collision with the train, the front of the bus literally blown to shreds. According to various sources, 16 to 19 people died in the accident, most of them were Uzbek natives. According to the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Moscow, the accident killed 19 people. The Investigative Committee was informed by RIA Novosti about the death of 16 people. Among the victims there is a child.