{"id":529662,"date":"2026-03-30T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=529662"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:02:24","slug":"school-bus-crushes-driver-in-svislach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/school-bus-crushes-driver-in-svislach","title":{"rendered":"School Bus Crushes Driver In Svislach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Investigative Committee is investigating a criminal case over an incident in Svislach where a school bus crushed its driver.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Investigative Committee, the incident took place in January. The starter on one of the buses became jammed. The 50-year-old bus driver informed his 62-year-old supervisor about the breakdown.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;Instead of sending the vehicle for repairs to specialists at the local bus depot, the manager ordered that the problem be fixed in-house.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>The driver did not object. During working hours, at his home, he began repairs: he installed a jack, placed wooden blocks underneath and climbed under the bus, expecting to quickly deal with the fault. However, the structure failed, and the multi-tonne bus fell, crushing the man&#8221;<\/i><\/em>, the Investigative Committee said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver suffered serious injuries. At present, his life and health are not under threat.<\/p>\n<p>Following the inspection, a criminal case was opened against the 62-year-old mechanical engineer under Part 1 of Article 306 of the Criminal Code, covering violations of occupational safety rules resulting in serious bodily injury through negligence.<\/p>\n<p>He was responsible at the company for ensuring compliance with safety regulations. At the same time, the driver did not have the right to carry out such work: he had not undergone the necessary training, instruction or knowledge testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investigative Committee is investigating a criminal case over an incident in Svislach where a school bus crushed its driver. According to the Investigative Committee, the incident took place in January. The starter on one of the buses became jammed. The 50-year-old bus driver informed his 62-year-old supervisor about the breakdown. &#8220;Instead of sending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":529661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69ca584465356.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"School Bus Crushes Driver In Svislach"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}