The prosecutor of Tula Oblast (province) in Russia, Aleksandr Kozlov, informed that negligence by the driver is the main theory in the Armenian passenger bus crash in Tula.

In his words, the bus was traveling at a speed of 117 kilometers per hour at the time of the accident, whereas there was a 70km/hour speed limit at the given section of the motorway, Tulainfo reported.

Although the vehicle was repaired just a few hours before the incident, a respective expertise has been commissioned.

Nine people were killed and over forty others were injured as a passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, crashed on November 3, in Tula Oblast in Russia.

Both Armenia and Russia have opened criminal cases into this tragic road accident.

The bus driver, Garnik Harutyunyan, has been taken into custody for two months.