{"id":142177,"date":"2018-06-16T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/taxi-ploughs-into-pedestrians-in-moscow-injuring-eight\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T22:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T22:09:53","slug":"taxi-ploughs-into-pedestrians-in-moscow-injuring-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/taxi-ploughs-into-pedestrians-in-moscow-injuring-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi ploughs into pedestrians in Moscow injuring eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Damaged taxi in Moscow on 16 June 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/E1C5\/production\/_102079775_mediaitem102079772.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      The car came to a halt after hitting a lamppost                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">At least eight pedestrians, including some Mexican World Cup fans, were injured after a taxi mounted a crowded pavement in central Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV footage posted on social media showed the car veer out of a queue of stationary traffic and accelerate into pedestrians before coming to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>The driver then fled, pursued by several passers-by.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow police said the driver was a 28-year-old national of Kyrgyzstan, who was now being questioned in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#039;s mayor said the driver lost control of the car, while Russia&#039;s Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying he had fallen asleep at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>But one witness, who was across the road at the time of the crash, said it did not appear to be accidental.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I have the feeling that he did it deliberately because he was in the traffic jam with the cars going really slowly,&quot; said Viktoria Geranovich, &quot;How could he lose control of the wheel, push the gas and drive into the crowds?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She said &quot;mostly girls&quot; were knocked down, but people rushed to help and the ambulance arrived quickly. &quot;Thank god everything went well. It&#039;s scary that this happened in the very centre.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified official said of the injured: &quot;Seven of them are in a satisfactory condition and one woman is in a moderate condition.&quot; <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Reuters                                                    <\/figure>\n<p>The incident happened not far from the Kremlin and Red Square, an area packed with tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is currently hosting the World Cup, and promised &quot;unprecedented&quot; security measures in all cities hosting the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright ReutersImage caption The car came to a halt after hitting a lamppost At least eight pedestrians, including some Mexican World Cup fans, were injured after a taxi mounted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}