Penza, 5 January 2014. PenzaNews. Investigators made a preliminary identification of bodies of 8 people killed in an accident involving a passenger bus, which occurred on 523 km of federal highway M5 “Ural” in Nizhnelomovsky area of the Penza region on Saturday, January 4.

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“Among them, there are two residents of Penza, three residents of Zemetchinsky area, and three residents of Nizhnelomovsky area,” the inspector of the group of propaganda of Traffic Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Penza region Pavel Boltyshev told news agency PenzaNews on Sunday, January 5.

He added that among them there was a driver of the bus that was going from Zemetchino village to Penza and a girl born in 2003.

“Other victims of the accident are women born in 1943, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1963 and 1975,” he said.

Pavel Boltyshev also added that according to preliminary data, the driver of the car VAZ-2110 – a woman born 1987 – lost control, drove into oncoming traffic where collided with Mercedes semi-trailer, which then crashed into a passenger bus PAZ.

“As a result of the collision truck and bus caught fire,” he explained.

Paul Boltyshev stressed that the results of the examination would show whether the driver of VAZ-2110 had been drunk in the time of the accident.

According to him, the information of some media that the driver of the car left the scene of an accident does not correspond to reality.

“As a result of the accident the woman got a broken spine. Now she is in the hospital,” he said.

Senior Inspector of the group of propaganda of Traffic Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Penza region said that then there were 12 people in hospital.

“At the scene of the first medical assistance was provided to 13 passengers. They refused to be hospitalized,” Pavel Boltyshev explained.

As the head of information and public relations division of the main department of Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the region Anna Shupilova told news agency “PenzaNews,” the bodies were taken to Vadinsk.

“Their identification began at 11.00,” she added, noting that the procedure is complicated due to the fact that all the dead people were in the burned bus.

It is planned that the bereaved families will receive financial assistance from the reserve fund of the governor of the Penza region Vasily Bochkarev.