More than 100 injured as passengers are flung out of speeding Russian tram when brakes fail, sending victims scattered across the road before the vehicle crashes

More than 100 people are injured and at least one dead after passengers on a speeding tram in Russia were thrown from the vehicle and scattered on the road after the ‘breaks failed’.

The runaway tram reportedly went out of control at 7.35am when it picked up speed and threw commuters out of the broken doors onto the busy Logovaya highway.

The car eventually collided with another tram further down the road, injuring more than a hundred people in the Russian city of Kemerovo. Several people fought for their lives. It is understood there are injuries from both trams.

Terrifying footage shows the tram taking a turn at high speed as the doors come loose.

Two passengers are thrown about 15 meters onto a busy road, where alert drivers screeched to a halt in wet conditions.

More than 100 people are injured and at least one dead after passengers on a speeding tram in Russia were thrown from the vehicle and scattered on the road after ‘breaks failed’

The runaway tram went out of control as it accelerated, throwing commuters out of the broken doors onto a busy highway

A third passenger was thrown from the moving tram after desperately holding on before being thrown out, it was revealed.

They were seen motionless on the road and at least three passengers are in a ‘serious’ condition in hospital.

The number of injured quickly rose to 102 in the hours after the horror incident, Interfax reported – and at least one person has been confirmed dead.

Seven of those injured in the shocking accident were children.

Shot media said the tram had already crashed into a car before speeding away at 100km/h, with the driver Alexandra Marieva, 23, apparently unable to brake.

She had been working as a driver since October last year, according to reports.

Before undergoing emergency surgery, Marieva told her parents that “the brakes failed” on the tram.

She tried to use the emergency brakes and cut off power to the tram, but the tram moved forward out of control, she said.

The vehicle eventually crashed into another tram further down the road, injuring more than a hundred people in the Russian city of Kemerovo

Transport in the area was ‘paralyzed’ after the horrific incident

The number of injured quickly rose to 102 in the hours after the horror incident, Interfax reported – and at least one person has been confirmed dead

A local report in Kemerovo, an industrial city in Siberia, said: ‘The accident took place early in the morning on the Logovaya highway’

The driver suffered multiple fractures and a head injury and is now in hospital.

A passenger on the stationary tram saw the runaway tram ‘approaching downhill at terrifying speed’.

“The people on the other tram suffered the most,” said passenger Natalya, who said she had to wait 40 minutes for an ambulance.

A local report in Kemerovo, an industrial city in Siberia, said: ‘The accident took place early in the morning on the Logovaya highway.

‘According to preliminary data, the tram on line 10 suffered a malfunction in the braking system, causing the car to gain enormous speed.

‘As a result, the doors of the tram were torn off at a bend and two people flew out.’

A criminal case has been opened into the nightmare accident at 7:35 am on tram line 10.

Alexandra Marieva, 23, who was driving the tram, said she tried to use the emergency brake and cut off electrical power to the tram, but it went out of control

A criminal case has been opened into the nightmare accident at 7:35 am on tram line 10

There have been other examples of control failures on trams, including in St. Petersburg, where the tram system is being prepared to operate without a driver under AI control.

“As a result of the collision, there are victims who are receiving necessary medical care,” an official from Kemerovo said.

Transport in the area was ‘paralyzed’ after the horrific incident.

The mayor of Kemerovo admitted that the ‘wear and tear’ of its public transport system has reached dangerous levels.

The trams “are outdated, they are like 40 years old,” he said.

One comment on a local story read: ‘Why is the Russian government spending a fortune on the war in Ukraine if our public services are so unsafe?’

The AKSM-60102 tram was made in neighboring Belarus and was 16 years old.

According to reports, it underwent a full overhaul on June 2.