Cabbie drove 20 solid hours before ploughing into Moscow pavement

Image released by the Moscow Municipal Traffic Regulation center shows police officers and paramedics working at the accident scene. [Courtesy]

A taxi driver who ploughed into a Moscow pavement on the third day of the World Cup, injuring at least seven people, said in a video released by authorities Sunday he had been working for 20 hours solid before the incident.

The unnamed man said he had slept for only two or three hours before the shift and confused the brake and the accelerator, leading to an "unexpected" loss of control, according to the video on the website of the local interior ministry.