Traffic cop hailed a hero after saving 300 children by driving his patrol car into oncoming maniac

The officer from Khakassia was escorting nine buses with over 300 children when a lunatic driver suddenly drove at high speed towards the convoy on the wrong side of the road. 

With a split second to think, the heroic Kosolapov manoeuvred his Ford Focus patrol car into harms way, preventing a full-scale collision with the lead bus, but leaving him with devastating injuries, and his car a write-off. 

'The officer quickly assessed the situation and risking his own life, he managed to prevent a head-on collision,' said a police source. 

The cop is alive but in a critical condition in Abakan City hospital with serious multiple injuries. It was a 'miracle' he was not killed, said the source. 

His car was reduced to a 'pile of metal'.

The driver and four passengers of the onrushing car, among them a 10 year old child, were also injured and are now hospitalised after the smash on the Abakan - Ak-Dovurak highway.