Russian blogger Tatyana Ozolina, known as MotoTanya, died in a car accident in Turkey. The accident occurred on the Milas-Söke highway IHAAccording to the information received, two of the three motorcyclists who were heading towards Milas on the highway collided with a truck, then one of the motorcyclists hit the barrier on the right side of the road, and the other hit the barrier in the middle.
Eyewitnesses who saw the incident called the emergency services, and ambulance and police teams arrived at the scene. The Russian woman died at the scene, while the second motorcyclist was taken to Milas hospital after receiving first aid.
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According to another version, motorcyclists collided with each other while riding: the bicycle ridden by a Turk named Onur Obut crashed into Ozolina’s motorcycle near the village of Sarıçay. clarified RIA Novosti cites Turkish news agency Anadolu.
In the photo taken from the accident scene, published Ozolina’s badly damaged red motorcycle was seen on Telegram’s “Emergency/accident/Photos and videos from eyewitnesses” channel. In the photo, some parts of the bike are scattered everywhere.
Tatyana Ozolina was known on social networks thanks to her entertaining content, about 2 million people subscribed to her YouTube account, she had more than 5 million subscribers on TikTok, and almost 1 million subscribers on Instagram (the owner of the Meta company is known as an extremist banned in Russia) MotoTani’s video, in which Ozolina talks about traveling to Tbilisi on her BMW S 1000 RR sports bike, was published on YouTube on May 13.
Onur Obut, who travels with Ozolina, is also a blogger but less famous; his Instagram account is followed by 230 thousand people.
Cyclists who knew Ozolina told socialbites.ca that the woman was riding her motorcycle carefully:
“We didn’t know each other very well. We met in the mountains when I was traveling and talked. Tanya had just started traveling at that time and didn’t really travel in groups. Later, when I had children, I sold the motorcycle and they could only communicate with Tanya through social networks. Tanya was a gentle, kind and good girl. I can’t believe it. She drove carefully,” said motorcyclist Irina.
First bike
Tatyana Ozolina was born in the city of Tara, Omsk region, at the age of 15 she moved to Omsk, where she received secondary choreographic education and higher economic education. In 2011, Ozolina had a son, and a year later Tatyana moved to Moscow.
The woman bought her first motorcycle in 2014, and in 2015 she became popular in Russia and abroad thanks to photos and videos from the bike.
“Every year the number of people interested in my motorcycle life increased and so in 2020 I became the most popular motorcyclist in the world by subscriber count. And I am that to this day” Wrote On the official website of MotoTanya.
In addition to blogging, Ozolina was also engaged in the supply of new or low-mileage cars and motorcycles from Europe to Russia.
Tatyana was fond of long-distance motorcycle travel: at the first stage, in 2017, she rode the route from Moscow to Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi, and also from Moscow to St. Petersburg and back. This was followed by trips to Belarus, Armenia, Crimea, Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine.
Traveling to Turkey by motorcycle was not Ozolina’s first: in 2019 she made a similar journey of 5.7 thousand km from Moscow through the Russian regions of the North Caucasus and Georgia.
July 10th MotoTanya reported He announced on his Telegram channel that he was embarking on a new journey.
“Today I’m going on a new journey on a motorcycle. I’ll be happy to meet and hug you, my subscribers, along the way,” he wrote.
“I couldn’t manage to travel around Europe”
She arrived in Tbilisi on July 12 and then went to Turkey, visiting Samsun, Ankara and Istanbul. The girl was planning to go to Greece from Turkey, but her motorcycle I didn’t miss it beyond the border.
“I walked to Greece. I bought a magnet and returned to Turkey. “I was sad that I couldn’t travel around Europe, but not too much because I knew that this would happen. So I continued. To conquer beautiful, warm and hospitable Turkey,” the blogger wrote on July 18.
On the eve of MotoTanya’s death, he wrote that he would go to Bodrum via Izmir.
“Luminous Izmir morning. +33 [°C]”, reads his latest post on Telegram, looking out the window of a tall building.
As Tatyana’s friend Yuliana told socialbites.ca, MotoTanya was supposed to shoot a joint video with another motorcycle blogger in Istanbul before the trip to Izmir, but she did not show up.
“In the evening, I was going to go to the Istanbul Golden Horn Bridge set and shoot a video with my motorcycle blogger friend. But he and Onur never showed up. The next morning, we set off for Izmir. And this happened,” the woman shared.
Under the last Instagram post after MotoTani’s death, subscribers began to leave messages of condolence. There were about 4.5 thousand comments. In the Moscow motorcycle community It was expressed Our condolences for what happened.
“As the best blogger he was worshiped, envied, admired, copied, awarded with awards and at the same time both discussed and slandered. Everything. Now all that remains is memory. Sleep tight. May he rest in peace. P.S. I still hope that this was some kind of mistake, that it was just a helmet and was mixed up…” – noted in the public opinion of the motorcycle community.
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Source: Gazeta
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