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At least 4 dead after bus crashes into underground passage in Moscow (VIDEO, PHOTOS) 5 killed as runaway bus crashes into underground passage in Moscow (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
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Four people died when a bus crashed into an underground passage in western Moscow, police said. Five people were killed by a bus that crashed down the stairs of an underground passage in western Moscow, police said. The driver of the bus was taken into custody.
The incident happened on Kutuzovsky Avenue, near the Slavyansky Bulvar metro station in the western part of the Russian capital. At least four people were killed and more than 10 injured in the crash, police told TASS. READ MORE: Moment bus rammed into Moscow pedestrians caught on camera (VIDEO)
Police are investigating two possible causes for the incident, a source told RIA Novosti. The bus’s brakes might have failed or the bus may have been affected by a car that cut in ahead of the vehicle, the source added. The incident happened on Kutuzovsky Avenue, near the Slavyansky Bulvar metro station in the western part of the Russian capital. Five people were killed and about a dozen injured in the crash, police said. Three people were taken to hospital for treatment.
The authorities said they were not treating the incident as a case of vehicular terrorism at this time. Their primary version of what happened is a technical malfunction that caused the bus to veer off the road and down the stairway.
Another version is human error, as suggested by people working for the bus line. According to the driver’s supervisor, he might have fallen asleep and pushed the gas pedal accidentally.
The supervisor also told RT that the driver had started his shift at 1:30pm on Monday, about two hours before the crash. He also said that the driver had worked normal shifts of 11 hours for the past two days. The director of the bus company is at the scene of the accident, he added.