Overview

• On August 4, a bus struck a freight train at a regulated crossing between Lodeynoye Pole and Olonets stations in the Leningrad region.
• Officials report the bus entered the crossing ahead of the approaching train and emergency braking by the locomotive crew could not avert the impact.
• Reported fatalities range from one to two, while injured passengers are estimated between 10 and 16 according to different sources.
• The North-West Transport Prosecutor’s Office and the Investigative Committee for Transport have launched a criminal case into alleged traffic violations.
• Investigators are examining claims over the bus’s classification after the railway administration described it as a regular service vehicle and prosecutors identified it as a tourist bus.