Three cars collided on the Crimean bridge on the way to Kerch. This was reported by TASS citing a source in the emergency services of Crimea.
“Three people died, one was injured, his condition is being determined. The source said traffic is currently halted in both directions.
The dead were traveling in the same car that entered the oncoming lane. The victims of the accident on the Crimean bridge were a driver and two passengers, born in 1996 – a 24-year-old girl and a 32-year-old man. A man born in 1970 was injured and injured.
The casualty was first trapped inside the damaged car, but rescuers managed to get him out. Ambulance doctors who came to the scene of the accident determined that the condition of the person was serious, and the person was taken to the hospital.
At the republican headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they said that one of the cars got into the opposite lane. The driver of a VAZ-2112 car, moving from the Crimea to the Kuban, collided head-on with a Hyundai Starex passenger car. After that, a VAZ-2106 crashed into them. While the driver and two passengers of the VAZ-2112 died, the Hyundai driver was taken to the hospital. The driver and passengers of the third car – the “six” – were not injured.
Kerch Mayor Svyatoslav Brusakov said it will take one to one and a half hours to restore traffic on the bridge.
“There is a traffic jam but it is small. Now they will deal with the victims, they will measure. Moreover, the time has already passed, already more than an hour. Cars [экстренных служб] “Go there now, considering it’s Monday, I don’t think it’s going to be critical,” he said.
By noon, the press service of the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs RIA Novosti told Crimea that traffic on the Crimean bridge had improved after the accident.
“The consequences of the accident have vanished,” the ministry added.
According to the Uprdor “Taman” press service, which is responsible for the road part of the bridge, small traffic jams have now formed at the entrances on both sides.
“After the restoration of traffic on the Crimean bridge, a small accumulation of cars from the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Crimea was recorded on automatic approaches, the waiting time was up to 2 hours,” the ministry said.
The bridge is almost finished
Rosavtodor’s press service informed TASS on February 14 that by the end of the month, car and bus traffic will open on the Crimean bridge on the left. Restoration work on the bridge is about to be completed.
“In the next two weeks, experts will repair damaged engineering systems, install a barrier fence and apply thermoplastic signs,” said Rosavtodor.
Prior to this, the Ministry of Transport of Russia reported that after the repairs, vehicle traffic on the Crimean bridge resumed. As noted, restrictions on the movement of cars will apply from 0:00 to 12:00 (Moscow time).
On October 8, a truck was blown up on the Crimean bridge – Russian authorities blamed the Ukrainian special services for this. As a result of the explosion, the fuel tanks of the railway train caught fire, the two openings of the automobile part of the bridge collapsed. Five people died.