“The driver helped us all.” An employee of the Victor handball club injured in an accident spoke in detail about the accident

The driver of a bus with handball supporters involved in an accidentWinner “We saved everyone,” Sergei Nadeine, head of the club’s media department, who was also in the vehicle at the time of the accident, told .

On Sunday, Victor fans returned to Stavropol from Krasnodar, where the Russian championship match against SKIF took place. The accident occurred near the village of Starokorsunskaya; there were 49 people on the bus. According to the latest data, the truck driver died and 22 people were hospitalized in Krasnodar hospitals. Later, Victor manager Ivan Fiev told that all the children were at home and most fans had been sent home. According to him, only three people are hospitalized.

The investigative committee has opened criminal proceedings regarding an accident involving a bus. There were no deaths among bus passengers.

— We were already passing through the village of Starokorsunskaya, leaving Krasnodar. The first bus was ours, then two other buses with the supporters and the team. I sat next to the driver near the main entrance, looking out the window. I had already looked down at the phone, and then the driver shouted: “Where are you going?!” » I looked up and there were already ten meters to the truck. The driver even helped us all because he tried to avoid the collision – he turned right. Specifically, a truck crashed into my area, where I was sitting on the bus. But if they had crashed head-on, there would have been more casualties, I think. So thank you to the driver for reacting.

Then everyone started jumping. Thanks to everyone who was there. Diesel fuel on the asphalt immediately caught fire. They started breaking the windows, everyone jumped out and helped the fans out. I immediately jumped out, one of the first – my window was immediately broken. The others outside then knocked out more to help. Passers-by also helped. Everyone who was nearby. Everyone managed to evacuate.

I don’t know, maybe I felt like I had a fever, but after about a minute and a half the bus started to burn. Because it’s cool that everyone quickly helped each other, and everyone inside quickly realized they had to jump off the bus. There were already traffic police officers on the street who saw what was happening, as I understood, because they were right there. We saw people jumping.

Then the ambulance arrived quickly. Several people were more seriously injured. They received first aid and sent to Krasnodar, to the First Regional Clinical Hospital. I and two other people were sent to the zemstvo. We had smaller injuries, fractures. My collarbone fell a little and the ligament holding it torn.

— How long will the rehabilitation last?

– I don’t know yet. I made an appointment with the doctor. I will go tomorrow. The zemstvo doctor said: “You will have to lie down for a week. » You have to sew it up there. I made an appointment with the doctor who treats our players. He just sews “crosses” for our boys. The club trusts him. The injury is not that critical considering where I was sitting! It’s not an injury at all, I think,” Nadein told .

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