Omsk resident to be compensated for car accident with tank

A municipal court has ruled that a resident of the Siberian city of Omsk involved in a car accident with a T-80 tank in September 2014 will be paid 700,000 rubles (approximately $10,720) in damages for moral injury. According to the news agency Interfax, the damages will be paid by the Omsk Plant for Transport Engineering.

The Omsk regional prosecutor's office clarified that a criminal case could not be initiated against the defendant, as no crime had been committed under article 264 of the criminal code specifically on the question of traffic violations which caused serious harm to human health.

On September 22, 2014, on one of Omsk's intersections, the resident's car collided with a road train carrying a T-80 tank, a third generation battle tank originally designed in the Soviet Union. The driver of the automobile received serious injuries. Local authorities later reported that the driver of the road train had not made way for the driver of the lighter vehicle, despite the fact that the latter had right of way.