On the morning of August 25, near the village of Volna in the Krasnodar Territory, a bus carrying workers fell from a pier in Kerch Strait. There were 41 people on the bus, 16 of them died, 24 people were saved. Another person (as of 12:00 Moscow time) is listed as missing, they are looking for him (upd: it later became known that he died).

Photos from public "Overheard from drivers. Temryuk"

“The bus was carrying workers to the site. When descending to the pier, its brakes failed. The bus drove onto the pier, drove along it 300-400 meters and fell into the water,” the [district] administration said. They added that they are now clarifying the lists of people who were on the bus at the time of the emergency.

“The depth of the fall of the bus is great; it fell from a height of about three meters,” a representative of the Temryuk district administration told TASS.

TASS

The Investigative Committee believes that the cause of the bus falling into the water was an accident. An Interfax source in the operational services of the region added that the accident, according to one of the main versions, occurred due to a brake failure.

According to the head office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the bus transporting shift workers belongs to a company that is building a pier for the Tamanneftegaz company in the village of Volna.

"Interfax"

According to eyewitnesses, the bus's brakes failed. The driver tried to brake using the gearbox, but it was torn apart at speed. The car spun around, hit a concrete barrier, and then capsized into the sea.

Investigators will now take after the businessman who owns the bus. It has been established that this is a local resident born in 1963. The Investigative Committee believes that no one was watching the car and that the brake failure was a consequence of the owner’s bastard negligence.

The driver of the bus that fell into the sea survived. He is now in the hospital with both legs broken.

Mash

“On this fact, a criminal case has been initiated on the grounds of a crime under Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of rules traffic and operation of vehicles)<...>

Currently, investigators are establishing all the circumstances of the incident, and are clarifying information about the dead and injured. All possible versions of the accident will be considered, including those related to violation of traffic rules by the bus driver, technical malfunction, and the role of persons who are responsible for monitoring technical condition vehicle and ensuring the safety of enterprise workers."

“The whole road was covered in oil, it was pouring out in a plume, people started jumping out as they walked.”

Rescue work near the village of Volna, where workers are being transported to their shift in the morning, continues. According to the latest data, as a result of the emergency, 17 people died, 27 were saved (among them the driver). Our MK in Kuban correspondents managed to contact the wife of an eyewitness to the events, who was traveling in a shift bus just behind the vehicle that fell into the sea. According to him, most likely the bus’s brakes were faulty.

This is what the woman told our colleagues: “My husband works there. He sent me a text message in the morning: “We have an emergency, the bus fell off the pier, many died.” A little later the information was confirmed by the local administration.

Then the husband called and said that they were traveling in a shift bus following the Interstroevsky one, on which workers were transported to the construction of the Tamanneftegaz pier near the Kerch Strait (the pier is intended for OTEKO, which includes Tamanneftegaz, the largest investment company in the new port of Taman It is being built by the subcontractor Interstroy - author) And there the road goes downhill. The husband explained: “We see that bus rushing straight down. We still think why he’s rushing like that, and then we see that the whole road is covered in oil, it’s pouring out like a plume. Apparently, the bus's brakes had failed and the driver tried to brake with the handbrake. It was clear that he could not stop; people began to jump out as he walked. We saw people crawling out through the hatches above. One landed successfully, the other injured his arm and broke his ribs. And the bus kept speeding along, reached the pier and fell into the water.”

According to an eyewitness, the bus was full. Along with them were people from the same shift, for whom there was simply no place left in the bus that then fell into the sea.

A witness to the events also said that, most likely, there was a local Temryuk brigade on the bus, engaged in the construction of the pier. They immediately began to pull people out of the fallen bus, but the depth there was about 10 meters. The first three who were taken out of the water could not be saved; they drowned immediately.

More than 20 divers worked at the site. The bus has already been lifted up by crane. But the search for the missing continues.

25.08.2017, 15:20

A large-scale emergency occurred in Russia during the construction of the Kerch Bridge

As a result of an accident, a bus carrying Russian workers fell into the Kerch Strait. As a result of the accident, 18 people died and another 34 were urgently hospitalized.

The body of the 18th victim was found at the site of a bus crash with workers in the Krasnodar Territory. The Interfax agency reported this, citing a source in the region's ambulance service.

“According to updated data, 18 people were found without signs of life,” the message says.

In addition, the number of people hospitalized in medical institutions after the bus fell from the bridge increased to 34. Of these, two were urgently transported by helicopter to the Krasnodar Regional Clinical Hospital.

Psychologists and emergency medical teams, regional specialists, including a resuscitator, a neurosurgeon and a traumatologist are working at the scene of the incident.

“The bus was returning with workers from the Tamanneftegaz enterprise from a shift. For an unknown reason, according to preliminary data, it fell into the Kerch Strait,” a representative of the emergency services of the region of the Russian Federation said earlier.

Prior to this, EMERCOM employees rescued 24 people, eight of whom were hospitalized. Also, the Ministry of Emergency Situations previously stated that at the time of the accident there were 38 people on the bus.

“At 08:07... a message was received that in the village of Volna, a shift bus with people in it fell into the water from a pier under construction,” said a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the bus belongs to a construction company that built a pier for the Tamanneftegaz company.

This morning in the Krasnodar Territory in the area settlement A wave of the Temryuk region fell into the Kerch Strait of a bus that was transporting workers building a pier in the Kerch Strait.

According to official data, there were 35 people on the bus, all of them were employees of the Tamanneftegaz company. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 12 people died in the accident. However, other sources indicate that there were 38 people on the bus, 24 people were rescued, 8 of them were sent to hospitals, and another 14 people died. According to preliminary data, the accident occurred due to the fault of the driver who lost control.

Divers are conducting search and rescue operations at the scene. More than 20 people were rescued. More than 80 people and 27 pieces of equipment were involved in eliminating the consequences, including 17 people and 7 pieces of equipment from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

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At about 8 a.m., near the village of Volna, Krasnodar Territory, a bus overturned from a pier into the Kerch Strait. According to preliminary data, it was transporting workers of a contracting organization and the company ZAO Tamanneftegaz, who were returning from their shift.

According to the administration of the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory, the territory was cordoned off, doctors, law enforcement officers, and psychologists went to the scene. In addition, a special marine rescue squad went there and lifted the fallen bus to the surface. The depth of the sea in the area of ​​the accident is about 4 meters.

As a result of the tragedy, 17 people out of 41 on the bus died. All victims were taken to hospitals in the region. Doctors assess the condition of 5 people as serious.

According to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, more than 110 people and 29 pieces of equipment were involved in eliminating the incident.

The investigation is underway...

The case of the death of workers in the Kuban, by order of the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, was transferred to the investigative department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia, and experienced investigators and criminologists from the central apparatus were sent to the scene of the incident.

Initially, a criminal case was opened on the grounds of a crime under Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic rules and operation of vehicles). However, by 11 o'clock it was established that the workers were being transported by a bus belonging to a private entrepreneur.

“In this regard, the investigation additionally qualified the crime under Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet security requirements),” according to the website of the RF IC.

The investigation is considering all possible versions of the accident: violation of traffic rules by the driver, technical malfunction. In addition, the task of the investigators is to establish “the role of the persons who are responsible for monitoring the technical condition of the vehicle and ensuring the safety of the enterprise’s workers.”

The Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office is also conducting an investigation. So it’s too early to draw conclusions.

Bus accidents are not uncommon

Unfortunately, the statistics of accidents involving buses are sad, and not only in Russia. Messages come almost every day, and there are almost always casualties.

Just the day before, information came from Turkey about an accident with an intercity bus in which 5 people died. A few days ago, in a traffic accident with by tourist bus, also in Turkey, 11 Russians were injured.

This morning in Murmansk a bus crashed into a trolleybus. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The day before, two buses collided in the village of Vnukovo, resulting in three injuries. Minibuses get into accidents even more often.

The causes of road accidents are different every time: from traffic violations until the equipment fails. In any case, we can talk about the human factor. Drivers who do not know the rules of the road are hired; vehicles are not properly processed technical inspection, etc. In addition, many buses, especially in regions far from large and wealthy cities, are simply outdated. And no one knows what surprises to expect from them. But any of the reasons can lead to the death of people.