A passenger kept recording as he was thrown about the bus which smashed into a traffic light, rammed a car and brought down a road sign before spinning off the highway in Chigiri village, Russia
Russia: Bus moves uncontrollably after ‘brakes fail’
This is the horrifying moment a bus loses control on icy roads after its breaks failed as passengers scream “we’re going to die.”
The driver shouted to distressed passengers in Russia “Hold on, everyone” as he lurched around the road, charging downhill on a slippery surface in ice and snow.
A passenger kept recording a video as he was thrown about the bus number 106 which smashed down a traffic light, rammed a car, and brought down a road sign, spinning off the highway in Chigiri village. “The bus brakes failed. We are hurtling [out of control],” he said. In terror he predicted: “We’re going to be ****ed….”
The driver’s voice is heard shouting: “Hold on, everyone.” Eventually the runaway bus crashed into a tree and came to a halt in the mountainous Amur region.
“I’m alive,” says the video-maker. He asks: “Driver, are you alive? The driver replies: “The brakes failed.” The passenger asks: “All right, why did they fail?”
The driver was reported to be injured, but astonishingly the passengers numbering less than ten only suffered “shock” from the helter-skelter ride on the single-decker. The brake problem is being checked by investigators amid a criminal investigation.
But the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate publicly blamed the driver who they said was moving too fast for the treacherous icy conditions which contributed to the nightmare. It comes after a tram decked out with an experimental Russian AI system ahead of a driverless revolution ploughed into pedestrians – because of a brake failure in St Petersburg in April this year.
Several people were left injured, including a 45-year-old woman who was “seriously hurt” after getting trapped under the tram. The £1.7million “retro” tram fitted with artificial intelligence was on a test run with a driver. Soon after, the AI system “turned off” and the brakes failed, according to the experienced 45-year-old driver – including the back-up emergency brake mechanism.