SARATOV, June 27 A criminal case was initiated after an accident on a federal highway in the Samara region, where six people died and eight were injured, reported in the telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Earlier, the central office reported that on Tuesday night, on the 109th kilometer of the A-300 highway Samara — Bolshaya Chernigovka — the border with Kazakhstan, a Honda Stepwgn minivan and a Hyundai Elantra collided, as a result six people died, eight more were hospitalized. The emergency services specified that the dead and injured in the accident are, according to preliminary data, citizens of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
“The investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region have accepted a criminal case previously initiated by the police under Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Violation of traffic rules that negligently resulted in the death of two or more persons.” Galikhanov M.F. to report on the progress of the investigation of the criminal case and the established circumstances,» the report says.
Police have previously identified all but one victim, who is unconscious. According to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, two of the eight victims are in serious condition. According to preliminary data from the traffic police, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan driving a Hyundai Elantra, who drove into the oncoming lane, became the culprit of the accident, he died. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, two citizens of Kyrgyzstan and four citizens of Uzbekistan were among those killed in the accident. /ria.ru/20230627/strakhovschik-1880617681.html» data-title=»The name of the car most often beyond repair after an accident»>