"GAZ Group" distributed an official message in which it expressed its version of the causes of the terrible accident that occurred on December 25 in Moscow near the metro stop "Slavyansky Boulevard". The bus that was standing at the bus stop and had to go on a flight to Skolkovo, suddenly started moving, went to the sidewalk, and then all the way down the stairs to the underground passage.
As a result, five people were killed, another 15 were injured. The investigation is considering two possible versions of an emergency incident - the failure of technology and the error of the person driving the vehicle. The automaker told about his vision of the situation and the first assessment of the causes of the deadly accident. "GAZ" drew attention to the fact that at the beginning of the movement the wheels of the bus were directed not in the course of the expected traffic, but sharply turned to the right, just towards the footpath and underpass. At the same time, the official statement of the company, quoted by RIA Novosti, said that the driver probably did not try to stop the car that had rushed to the pavement - "none of the listed brake systems of the bus was used, let alone about the simple possibility of engine braking ". Otherwise, the bus manufacturer points out, the car would have probably stopped. But, judging by everything, these conclusions in the company have made, having carefully looked through video. Based on the video, which after the accident walks the Web, the picture really looks like this. It is completely unclear why the machine suddenly started, crossing the curb, moving along the sidewalk. The 58-year-old driver himself claims that the bus that was standing at the bus stopped on its own, and when he tried to stop it, giving it a brake, the system did not work. On the video, indeed, there is no hint that the car is slowing down, on the contrary, it is slow enough to start traffic, then accelerates. The media, who collected information and eyewitness testimony after the accident, informed that the driver had a 20-year experience at the time of the accident, and since 2000 worked in the same trucking company, and before going on the flight passed, as expected, medical examination. At the time of the accident, he was completely sober. True, a number of publications have written that the driver claims that before the incident he had a plastic bottle with water dropped to the floor. Perhaps, she, having rolled under the pedals, played a fatal role in the fact that the brakes did not work. In addition, as the source of "Gazeta. Ru ", behind the wheel of this particular bus model, according to his information, the driver sat for the first time. So, without the habit of managing it, in an emergency situation, it could lose control over the situation, or even panic altogether.
The car that committed a terrible accident, was equipped with a DVR, information from it is now being studied by investigators, said the information center of the transport complex in Moscow. As for the driver, then, as RT reported, the neighbors are described as being extremely calm, balanced. According to them, he was never seen drunk or scandalous.
At the same time, passengers who were on the bus at the time of the accident noted that when they went into the salon, they exchanged a few words with the driver. He was, according to them, not very friendly, but perfectly adequate.
By order of the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, unscheduled inspections of buses of Moscow carriers. They, according to the information center of the Moscow transport complex will be completed by 5 o'clock in the morning on December 26, that is, by the time buses leave for the line.