VLADIVOSTOK, Mar 15 A drunk driver without a license drove into a passenger bus at a public transport stop in the seaside Dalnegorsk, no one was injured, according to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Photos and videos of the incident have been circulating on social media. The footage shows that the windshield of a foreign car that crashed into the bus was completely covered with a thick layer of snow, only from the impact due to the accident the snow crust slightly cracked. The driver is asked how he could move if «nothing is visible», he shrugs his shoulders: «I arrived here.» Recently, a snow cyclone passed in the Dalnegorsk urban district, up to 50 centimeters of snow was recorded.
According to the police, the accident occurred at 20.20 (13.20 Moscow time). The 53-year-old driver of Toyota Ipsum was moving from the village of Rudnaya Pristan in the direction of the village of Osinovka. As the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region clarified, at the time of the collision there were 12 passengers in the bus.
«The driver drove into the GAZ bus, which was standing at a public transport stop. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, the vehicles received mechanical damage,» the report says.
It is noted that the driver of the car showed signs of intoxication, but he refused a medical examination. On the fact of road accident on the man made reports on administrative offenses. «The malicious violator of traffic rules was placed in a special detention center until the case was considered by the justice of the peace of judicial district No. 41 of Dalnegorsk,» the Ministry of Internal Affairs clarifies.
According to the agency, two days ago the driver of a foreign car was already brought to administrative responsibility for driving without a license and lack of insurance.