Eight injured people sought medical care after a scheduled passenger bus ran into a left-hand ditch in the village of Leninskoye near Novosibirsk on October 26, Russian police said.
A total of 15 people were aboard the vehicle at the time of the crash, and authorities reported that there were no children among them. Eight of those on board have already requested medical assistance.
Andrei Kuznetsov, deputy head of the State Traffic Inspectorate at the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told the RIA Novosti news agency that preliminary findings indicate the driver lost control of the bus before leaving the road.
According to an official police statement, the incident took place at 07:15 local time, which is 03:15 Moscow time. Preliminary information released by the agency stated that the driver of the scheduled PAZ bus failed to maintain control while travelling in Novosibirsk Oblast and drove into the ditch on the left side of the road along the direction of travel.
Regional transport and policing in Novosibirsk Oblast
The vehicle involved in the crash was a PAZ bus, a class of small and medium capacity passenger buses built by the Pavlovo Bus Factory in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. PAZ buses form a staple of regional public transport across Russia, operating on municipal, suburban and rural scheduled routes that link villages with larger cities.
Leninskoye is a rural settlement in Novosibirsk Oblast located near the regional capital of Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia. Novosibirsk serves as the administrative centre of the wider Siberian region and is the third most populous city in Russia, situated four hours ahead of Moscow time.
Road traffic accidents in Russia are investigated by the State Traffic Inspectorate, known as Gosavtoinspektsiya, which operates as the traffic police division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Initial details of the morning crash were shared by the regional interior ministry branch on Telegram and reported nationally by RIA Novosti, a state-owned Russian news agency headquartered in Moscow, while police noted that their assessment of the cause remains preliminary.
