[4][dubious – discuss] The collision was the worst single road accident in Ukraine's history by number of victims.

[5] The collision between a midibus carrying around 48 passengers and a locomotive occurred at 08:30 a.m. local time (05:30 UTC)[1] at an unmanned automated railway crossing.

[4] Ukrzaliznytsia's press service reported that a preliminary theory on the cause of the accident was the violation of traffic rules by the driver of the bus.

[7] President Viktor Yanukovych, on a visit to the region at the time, declared Wednesday the 13th a day of national mourning.

[4] Yanukovych also ordered for an investigation into the incident to be carried out in order to determine who bore responsibility for the crash[8] and instructed transport officials to install automated crossing gates at all railway crossings to prevent cars, buses and trucks from ignoring signals.