Taxi driver in Red Square crash ‘asleep at the wheel’

The suspect in a taxi crash near Moscow’s Red Square that injured two Mexican World Cup fans and six other pedestrians told interrogators he fell asleep at the wheel.

Moscow police released a video of an interrogation session with a man they identified as the taxi driver. In the recording, he says he briefly dozed off and accidentally accelerated. It was unclear whether the man spoke under duress.

The suspect in the video says he hadn’t slept in 20 hours and ran away after the accident because he was afraid that angry bystanders would kill him. He was later detained.

The Moscow city traffic authority identified the driver as 28-year-old Chyngyz Anarbek, who is from Kyrgyzstan. Police didn’t confirm if the crash would affect security measures for the World Cup.