{"id":603676,"date":"2026-11-14T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=603676"},"modified":"2026-11-14T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:15:03","slug":"truck-driver-was-not-wearing-a-seat-belt-while-minibus-driver-was-due-to-lose-his-licence-interior-ministry-details-fatal-crash-in-minsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/truck-driver-was-not-wearing-a-seat-belt-while-minibus-driver-was-due-to-lose-his-licence-interior-ministry-details-fatal-crash-in-minsk-region","title":{"rendered":"Truck Driver Was Not Wearing A Seat Belt, While Minibus Driver Was Due To Lose His Licence. Interior Ministry Details Fatal Crash In Minsk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Interior Ministry has provided details<\/a> of a fatal road accident in Staryya Darohi district, Minsk region, in which three people were killed<\/a>. According to the ministry, the minibus driver had repeatedly been held liable for serious traffic violations.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, on the morning of November 14, a 21-year-old driver of a Mercedes minibus used to transport goods for an online marketplace crossed into the oncoming lane on the R-43 highway and collided head-on with a truck and trailer. Both drivers and a 19-year-old female passenger in the minibus died at the scene.<\/p>\n

The Interior Ministry said that an order had previously been issued to revoke the minibus driver’s licence. It was due to take effect on November 24. The ministry also noted that the driver of the truck and trailer was not wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe details of the tragedy point to a systemic disregard for basic safety standards. Preliminary possible causes of the accident include violations of working and rest time regulations, the technical condition of the vehicle and speeding,\u201d<\/i> the press release said.<\/p>\n

The Interior Ministry also provided further details about a crash involving a minibus in Homiel region on November 13<\/a>. A contributing factor in the collision is believed to have been the truck driver’s failure to comply with working and rest time regulations.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, an Iveco truck and a passenger minibus travelling from Minsk to Pietrykau collided on the M-10 highway in Zhytkavichy district. There were 13 people aboard the minibus. After the accident, 10 people, including three children, were taken to hospital for examinations.<\/p>\n

The State Traffic Inspectorate plans to inform the state bodies responsible for road traffic oversight about the situation. Together with the Transport Inspectorate and other agencies, it intends to step up checks on carriers’ compliance with road safety legislation.<\/p>\n

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The Interior Ministry has provided details of a fatal road accident in Staryya Darohi district, Minsk region, in which three people were killed. According to the ministry, the minibus driver had repeatedly been held liable for serious traffic violations. As previously reported, on the morning of November 14, a 21-year-old driver of a Mercedes minibus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":603512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af889127816d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Truck Driver Was Not Wearing A Seat Belt, While Minibus Driver Was Due To Lose His Licence. Interior Ministry Details Fatal Crash In Minsk Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603676","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=603676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603679,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603676\/revisions\/603679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}