OREANDA-NEWS. October 02, 2008. ROSNO’s Yekaterinburg branch has paid a private individual an insurance compensation of 557 thousand roubles under the MOD insurance contract for the offroader Toyota Land Cruiser 100 in a curious traffic accident, reported the press-centre of ROSNO.

The accident occurred without drivers’ participation. During leisure time with friends at the lake shore, the owner of the Toyota vehicle left it near the shoreline. At three o’clock the Toyota owner decided to have a sleep in his own car and had just taken the rear seat when he noticed a KamAZ truck rushing directly towards his car down the hill.

Nobody was at the truck’s steering wheel! Having immediately grasped the gravity of the situation, the Toyota driver jumped out of his offroader. Afterwards, he had only to observe the KamAZ truck ramming into his car and hitting it against the pine-tree. As a result of this collision, the Toyota sustained considerable damage, including deformation of the rear right and front right doors, bonnet, front bumper, windshield, front left door, and mirrors. The insurance compensation paid under the MOD contract to finance the vehicle repairs amounted to 557,633 roubles.

This accident became possible through negligence of the KamAZ truck driver, who had left his seat without activating handbrake.