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CHELYABINSK, March 4 A Hyundai Santa Fe in the oncoming lane collided with a VAZ-21102 in the Chelyabinsk region, as a result xtnsht people died — a spouse and their two children, three more people were hospitalized, the press service of the Russian Main Internal Affairs Directorate for the region reported.
According to the traffic police, the accident occurred on March 4 at 15.30 (13.30 Moscow time) on the 14th kilometer of the Katav-Ivanovsk — Orlovka — Ust-Katav highway. A driver born in 2004 driving a Hyundai Santa Fe, according to preliminary data, when overtaking, drove into oncoming traffic, where he collided with a VAZ-21102 car driven by a driver born in 1988.
«As a result of a traffic accident, the driver of a VAZ-21102, passengers — a woman born in 1985, a girl born in 2016 and a boy born in 2024 (two months old) — died at the scene of the incident,» the statement says. message.
Another passenger of the VAZ — a boy born in 2018, as well as the driver of the Hyundai Santa Fe and a passenger born in 2007 were hospitalized. The traffic police establishes all the circumstances of the accident.
The police clarified that a family with children was traveling in a VAZ car.
Later, the press center of the regional prosecutor’s office reported that A criminal case has been initiated into the accident. “On this fact, the investigative body has opened a criminal case under Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic rules and operation of vehicles), the progress of the investigation has been monitored by the prosecutor’s office,” the message says.
Katav went to the scene of the incident — Ivanovo city prosecutor Vyacheslav Novozhenov to coordinate the actions of operational services, the prosecutor’s office clarified.