Alexei, who participated in a mass accident on the M-11 Neva federal highway, residing in the Leningrad Region, told socialbites.ca that traffic to Moscow will open “in five hours” at the latest. According to him, the accident involving 41 cars was caused by “terrible” road conditions.
“The accident happened around 11 o’clock. The road conditions are really bad. The road is not clear at all. Snow on the top, snow on the bottom so you can slip. The road didn’t collapse, that’s for sure. There was no trace of sprinkler. Actually I am at the epicenter of an accident. I was literally locked in. Faster. “There’s the main pile in front of me. Something really hard there, about 20 cars collided in one place. Two cars behind me were badly beaten and cannot be restored. My wife and I drove about 90 kilometers, it was so slippery.” “Which was useless to slow down. Along the right-hand fenders, there are reasonably high snowdrifts. Thanks to this snowdrift, my car remained more or less intact,” said Alexei.
According to her, the flow of cars was so great that the passenger car the woman was driving at the time of the accident was pushed under the truck in front. She died at the scene of her injuries.
“We now exchange recordings from video recorders. Of course, the scariest footage of the collision. My condolences to the family of the deceased woman. She was crushed under the truck. There were two children with her in the car, they managed to jump out and began to ask their mother for help. But unfortunately streaming. On Sunday, people were returning, they did not have time, ”said Alexei.
Drivers and their passengers had to stand in the street for several hours before rescuers could reach them.
“The Ministry of Emergencies branch set up a field camp somewhere around 3 pm. A bus arrived where you could warm up, filled the tents. There is no toilet. It is easier for men, but women have to hide behind trucks somewhere,” said Aleksey, and shared the conditions at the scene of the accident.
The man assumes that the highway will open to traffic before midnight, when employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will remove the “dumpster” of crumpled cars.
“I definitely think we will be idle for another 5 hours. I did not participate in the main dump. While avoiding the collision, I crashed into two cars while braking, so my accident has already been registered and let’s say I’m free. But don’t go anyway because there’s a dump in the front and a dump in the back. And we will stand until the front crumbles. Now in the opposite direction, St. No movement towards Petersburg. Sometimes only one car passes,” said Alexei.
A traffic accident occurred on the 503rd km of the highway in the Malovishersky district of the Novgorod region. In total, according to the latest data, 41 cars collided as a result of the accident; 1 person died, 5 people including 4 children and 1 woman were hospitalized. Due to the accident, a 4 km long traffic jam occurred. Bitumen spilled from the tank of one of the bumper trucks, and the emergency was quickly resolved.