Armenian citizen Hrachya Harutyunyan, truck driver accused of causing a road accident which left 18 dead in Russia, was brought to the court in a robe, as he didn’t have any other clothes on; doctors didn’t mean to humiliate him, the driver’s lawyer said.

As Eric Chabanov noted, the doctors had to take off his clothes when he was brought to the hospital following the crash, and he didn’t have any spare ones.

“The doctors didn’t mean to humiliate him; however, they could have contacted his lawyer to ask for a change of clothes,” he said.

18 people died after a truck carrying macadam ran into a passenger bus in an outlying area of Moscow. The accident occurred when the truck plowed into the side of the bus near Oznobishino, a settlement in the Moscow municipality about 40 kilometres south of the city center.

The trick driver faces up to 7 year behind bars.