A bus with passengers skidded off the road and crashed into a tree in the Amur Region.
At the time of the accident, the vehicle knocked down a traffic light and a road sign.
According to the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate on its Telegram channel, the cause could have been a driver error, who did not calculate the safe speed in icy conditions.
The bus passengers themselves claimed that the cause of the accident could have been brake failure.
The driver managed to tell the passengers to hold on to something.
The regional traffic police confirmed that an accident involving a bus occurred in the village of Chigiri in the Amur Region.
A passenger bus that skidded off the road crashed into a tree.
The moment of the accident was filmed by passengers inside the vehicle. They reported that the bus's brakes failed.
An administrative investigation into the incident is ongoing.