{"id":596472,"date":"2026-10-30T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=596472"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:48:22","slug":"truck-driver-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-colony-over-minibus-crash-that-injured-eight-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/truck-driver-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-colony-over-minibus-crash-that-injured-eight-people","title":{"rendered":"Truck Driver Sentenced to Three Years in Prison Colony over Minibus Crash That Injured Eight People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Vileyka District Court has heard a criminal case against a 26-year-old Minsk resident charged with violating traffic regulations, resulting in moderate and serious bodily injuries through negligence (Part 2 of Article 317 of the Criminal Code).<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver who caused a collision with a minibus in the Vileyka district has been sentenced to three years in a penal settlement and banned from driving for five years. The sentence was handed down by the Vileyka District Court, the court\u2019s press service <a href=\"https:\/\/court.gov.by\/ru\/minskij\/oblastnoj\/sud\/press_sluzhba\/soobscheniya\/press_sluzhbi\/bd4a48b3212947ea.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred in September 2025. In the evening, the 26-year-old driver stopped his truck within the boundaries of an intersection and began reversing across it. The trailer moved into the oncoming lane, where it was hit by a minibus.<\/p>\n<p>Eight people were injured in the crash: two sustained serious injuries and six suffered injuries of moderate severity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_596415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-596415\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-596415\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-30_17-54-55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-30_17-54-55.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-30_17-54-55-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-30_17-54-55-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-30_17-54-55-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-596415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Interior Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vileyka District Court has heard a criminal case against a 26-year-old Minsk resident charged with violating traffic regulations, resulting in moderate and serious bodily injuries through negligence (Part 2 of Article 317 of the Criminal Code). The truck driver who caused a collision with a minibus in the Vileyka district has been sentenced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":596474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ae4ca5a37491.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Truck Driver Sentenced to Three Years in Prison Colony over Minibus Crash That Injured Eight People"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596472","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=596472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596475,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596472\/revisions\/596475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}