In Yekaterinburg, the bus went from a stop during the exit from the cabin of the child

In Yekaterinburg on the evening of September 26, there was another incident with a small class bus. The driver of the bus, following route No. 72 (state number KO 536 66), started driving at the Reshetnikov Passage stop (with the bus doors open) during the exit of a preschool child from the cabin. Carrier of bus No. 72 on the route "South Substation" - SPC "Oncology" - LLC "Pegasus".

“The little boy and his mother had to jump out of the bus on the go,” the reader told MK-Ural. The movement was started at the moment when the child just put his feet on the sidewalk, and the mother was holding his hand (at the same time it is extremely difficult for the child and the parent to get out of the narrow door of such a bus), because of such a dangerous manner committed by the bus driver, the child’s legs could turn up, he could fall and even be under wheels. It is not clear what made the driver so in a hurry, because at the time of the start of movement in the cabin of the bus on the back platform in the queue for the exit was at least three people, including another minor child. It was as if the driver was deliberately scaring passengers or simply not in control.”.

According to the reader of MK-Ural, the driver during the disembarkation and landing of passengers at the specified stop conducted a conversation with the man sitting next to him, it is possible that for this reason he did not control the situation on the back deck, or deliberately started driving during the exit of passengers to speed up this process, starting the movement of the bus with open doors.

“There should be no such small-class buses in the city, whose drivers strive to overcome the route as quickly as possible in order to get more money,” the reader of MK-Ural believes. At a minimum, dangerous buses with single doors should be removed from the routes.

Also, according to the reader of MK-Ural, a problem has long been noticed: drivers with a dense filling of such a small class bus with difficulty control the situation on the back deck, especially when a child whose growth is below the seat backrests leaves the cabin. Some responsible drivers in Yekaterinburg have already begun to solve this problem by controlling the rear platform not through mirrors, but through a tablet installed in the cabin, to which the picture from the rear platform is displayed through a video camera.

In Yekaterinburg, dangerous incidents with small-class buses, whose drivers on gross contracts are interested in quickly passing the route, and therefore make dangerous maneuvers and poorly control the situation in the cabin, occur almost every day.

Sometimes people die as a result, but there are no fewer so-called minibuses in the city. As previously reported, on June 10, 2026, passenger bus No. 81 drove into a crowd of pedestrians near the Bolshoy Chrysostom temple in the center of Yekaterinburg. As a result of the collision, four people were killed, including a child, three more were injured.