The route of the bus that fell from a bridge in Transbaikalia was served by an individual entrepreneur

A bus with 43 passengers on the Sretensk-Chita route in the Trans-Baikal Territory fell off a 6-meter-high bridge today, December 1, around 9:40 Moscow time. 19 people were killed, including the driver (according to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs). Among the dead are at least two children; 14 people are hospitalized.

Accident. The cause of the accident, according to preliminary data from the traffic police, was a punctured wheel. The driver lost control, and the bus fell off the bridge onto the ice of the frozen Kuenga River, at 60 km of the Mogoytuy-Sretensk-Olochi highway.

• Two helicopters of the regional center for disaster medicine were sent to the scene from Chita. Also, the governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Alexander Osipov, went there.
• The prosecutor's office of the Trans-Baikal Territory and Rostransnadzor will check the carrier and the officials responsible for safety on this section of the road.
• A criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime, part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence."

Who controlled the route. The structure of the government of the Trans-Baikal Territory includes the Ministry of Construction, Roads and Transport. The carrier on this route was an individual entrepreneur Sergei Pnev, writes . TASS

• Pnev told the agency that he had all the necessary licenses, the bus passed technical inspections, the driver was experienced and passed a medical examination.
• Only one individual entrepreneur with this name is registered in Transbaikalia - “Pnev Sergey Viktorovich”, The Bell checked.
• The entrepreneur is 33 years old, he was born in Chita. Has been working in the bus transportation industry for at least 10 years.
• In 2014-2018, he headed a private Trans-Baikal carrier, the Gortransavto company. Since 2010, he has been a member of the local association of carriers. Both legal entities have now been liquidated.
• Now Sergey Pnev owns 46% of the Passenger Transport Enterprise 75 Region.
• Every year, Pnev receives state contracts for transportation from the Committee of Physical Culture and Sports of Chita, last year from PJSC Rostelecom, in 2013-2017 from six different schools.

Have you checked the bus? From 2012 to 2019, Rostransnadzor checked Pnev's work 20 times. Of these, violations were found as a result of 8 inspections.

• The last audit was carried out in September 2019. It was planned, no violations were identified.
• Violations were discovered during an unscheduled inspection in February-March 2019, but they concerned violations of bus routes.
• In 2017, several inspections revealed 12 violations, including the lack of a biennial medical examination for the driver Nikolai Kuzmin, nightly parking of buses outside authorized garages, and violation of the requirements for filling out driver shift schedules.
• Sergey Pnev has 28 leasing agreements valid until 2020 and 2021 for cars, buses and minibuses. But there is no overturned Kia Grandbird bus among the leased cars.
• According to an Interfax source, the bus belonged to a local travel company and was operating a certain chartered flight.