Overview

• A Novosibirsk court ordered 19-year-old Oleg Popov to house arrest until December 10 after a Volkswagen Polo hit six people at a bus stop on October 9.
• Investigators say Popov lacked a driver’s license, showed signs of intoxication, and drove a rented car registered to another person’s account under traffic‑crime statutes.
• In a separate Novosibirsk crash on October 10, a carsharing vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic on Kirova Street and hit a trolleybus head-on, injuring the driver, a female passenger, and a small child.
• In Ufa’s Sovetsky district, five people were taken to hospital after an ambulance with lights and siren collided with a Dodge Ram on Bakalinskaya Street, with the crew and patient sent for medical evaluation.
• In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, an ambulance overturned after another vehicle struck its rear wheel; two paramedics were injured, no patients were aboard, and causes are being established.