The truck demolished the pedestrian bridge at the Yaroslavl

31 July 2018

Inattentive driver of the truck was the cause of a serious accident in the suburbs

Another accident involving a dump truck with a raised body took place today in the suburbs. At about 10 a.m. July 31 at the 33rd km of the highway M-8 "Kholmogory" on the Yaroslavl highway in the Pushkinsky district of the dump truck Volvo moving in the direction of Sergiev Posad suddenly stood up the body. Not noticing that the driver did not reduce speed and after a hundred meters down the talus strikes pedestrian overpass across Yaroslavl highway. On the transition at this point, pedestrians, fortunately was not so among the directly affected is listed only himself unlucky driver of the truck. The number of indirectly affected, i.e., latecomers to the destination of drivers and passengers in the tens of thousands, as from-for accidents movement on the Yaroslavl highway was blocked in both directions and caused traffic jams, surrounding suburban cities of Mytishchi, Korolev, Pushkin, Shchelkovo and Ivanteevka.
A detour of the damaged section in the direction of Moscow was organized by the Office of traffic police GU MVD of Russia Moscow region through the Moscow region city of Pushkino and Ivanteyevka, and also by highway A-107 "Moscow Small ring". In addition, the direction of the field detours were organized in the streets of the road network in the cities of Mytischi, Queens, and via Mikrorayon Klyazma of Pushkin city district.
To eliminate the blockage was attracted by heavy machinery. Through traffic on the Yaroslavl managed to recover only to 17 h