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112.ua: Car accident in Zhytomyr region – bus driver fell asleep, did not attempt to brake

Published Aug. 13, 2018 at 9:16 pm

An emergency service worker writes notes on the spot of a car accident in Zhytomyr Oblast on July 20. A car accident happened when another minibus leaving Kyiv to Rivne collided with a truck near Zhytomyr city, leaving 10 people dead, including one child, and 10 more injured.

Photo by (Courtesy of National Police of Ukraine)

A driver of a passenger bus involved in the car accident in the Zhytomyr region on July 20 fell asleep at the moment of the tragedy. Head of the Regional Police Viacheslav Pechenenko claimed this as UNIAN reported.

“After the expert study we saw that the constructive changes in the brake system of the passenger bus were made but it did not influence the consequences,” he noted.