to try to open the door. watch this. the driver jumps out and runs away. he has since been detained and is being questioned by police. our matthew chance is on the scene live for us in moscow. matthew, it appears that street has reopened. do we know yet whether this was intentional? >> reporter: we do. in terms that the authorities here are saying that it wasn't intentional. i'm just reading some word that's come from the russian interior ministry saying that according to the person responsible for the road accident, it was unintended. the police have said that the primary cause for what they're calling the road accident is failure to control the vehicle, and so what the moscow police are doing are downplaying this incident amid all the sort of speculation about whether this was intentional or not. they're saying they've opened a criminal investigation into a