Two buses clashed in Minsk: 16 injured (Photo)

• 20.08.2012, 10:11

Today's morning, in a rush hour, two buses collided on Plekhanov street in Minsk, there are victims.

"Traffic police moved out to the scene of the accident, that occurred on Plekhanov str. 24, they are finding out the details. Accident occurred as a result of the collision of two buses", - Said to "Interfax-West" on Monday in Minsk traffic police.

According to the source, "there is no precise information on the number of victims."

In his turn, a reporter of "Interfax-West", who witnessed this accident, said that "it was near a bus stop on Plekhanov Street, two ambulance crews arrived at the scene, traffic police called for another medical team". "People are sitting at the bus stop, бандагев. Hard to say how many people were injured", - reported the journalist of the agency.

At the Minsk city ambulance station the news agency learned that "according to preliminary information, the victims are not heavily injured". "For now there is no exact number of victims", - said there.

In the street police's ofice of Zavadsky district onliner.by learned this:

- The driver of bus number 9 (behind the wheel was a 31-year-old driver) dropped off passengers at the stop "Vasnetsov", - told Anastasia Zabauskaja. - At this time another bus - № 56 - was approaching the bus stop. As was said by witnesses, it, without stopping, hit the first MAZ. As a result of the accident, 16 people were injured (all - adults), 9 of them were hospitalized. According to preliminary data, both drivers were sober. The alleged perpetrator of the accident (he is 55 years old) explained that he distracted.