According to the preliminary information provided by the state automobile inspection of the Soviet district of Minsk, 16 people suffered in the accident, reports the web-site onliner.by. They were delivered to hospitals. According to eye-witnesses, the tram's break system failed. The driver tried to warn the people around, she screamed and waved but she could not avoid the accident.
The trolley-bus folded in halves. Eye-witnesses say that the tram nearly knocked down the pedestrians who had already started crossing the driveway.
Photo and video by: Andrej Kim
Euroradio's correspondent from the accident site Illya Malinouski informs that the trolley-bus is seriously crushed. Representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are working there. The accident site is sealed. There are a lot of ambulance vehicles there. The casualties have mostly slight injuries. A BMW driver also suffered in the accident.
