Two people were killed on Saturday when a bus collided with a runaway KamAZ truck near Moscow, traffic police said.

The bus was taking passengers back from a daytrip to Kaluga, some 190 kms southwest of Moscow, when it ploughed into the truck.

The bus driver and an 11-year old girl died. Six other people were injured and two of them are in a critical condition.

The spokesman said that the truck driver had left his vehicle on the hard shoulder and that it then rolled into the highway.

The accident happened on the Kievskoye highway, near the turn-off for the Vnukovo-3 airport.

30,000 people lose their lives in traffic accidents every year in Russia.

President Dmitry Medvedev recently blamed the carnage on the poor state of the country's roads, as well as a "lack of discipline, and the criminal negligence of drivers."

MOSCOW, November 28 (RIA Novosti)