According to the second bus driver, Rami Vase (Rami Vazana), no races were not. He explained that the bus crashed a long time went ahead, but then at the checkpoint he was detained, and he lagged behind.
The vase, for its part, continued movement gently on a small speed downhill descents in the slope. Another driver, a 39-year-old Edward Gelfond (Edward Gelfond) after undergoing CAT, apparently decided to catch up for lost time, gathered speed and went to overtake.
Bypass bus Rami vase on the left, Edward Gelfond has been unable to fit into a steep right turn, lost control and his coach, the sample fence, crashed into deep ravine about 60 meters. Falling, the bus overturned several times, leaving virtually no chance of the passengers survive.
Most of them were women, the representative of Russian travel agencies, they are going to study tour at the Red Sea resorts of Eilat. 24 people were killed, another 20 were seriously injured: rvanye abdominal wounds, skull and spine injuries.
Total bus had 51 people. Two of them - the driver Edward Gelfond and a representative of the Israeli tourism firms Giora Arkadi (Giora Arkady), organized for the visit of Russian colleagues - were citizens of Israel, the remaining Russians.
Reported that the driver, unbelted, survived. Together with other victims he sent to the hospital to break out of which it is waiting for the court. According to some sources, if the bus is not departed from the route, he would still get in an accident: in a counter-band moved another tourist bus, and razminutsya it was almost impossible.
The press in the meantime, new versions of the incident. According to the newspaper "Your Day" indirect cause of the accident could become the Israeli army exercises, which are traditionally held in the region for the New Year. In recent days, the road has been shut by military and a driver for fear of getting stuck in probke for many hours, gnal struggles.
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