Yuri Nekrasov, head of the traffic police department in the Samara region, said that the deceased citizen of Kyrgyzstan was driving and could have caused an accident on a federal highway. writes about it RIA News.
Earlier, it was reported that a Honda Stepwgn minibus and a Hyundai Elantra collided on the 109th kilometer of the A-300 highway at around 1:30 am (0:30 Moscow time), resulting in a collision. dead Six people and eight people were injured and hospitalized. According to the emergency services, the dead and wounded are citizens of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the incident.
Yuri Nekrasov said in a video distributed by the press service of the regional directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the accident occurred because a Hyundai car drove into the opposite lane. Hyundai was driving a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic, while the Honda minivan was registered outside of Russia.