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NALCHIK, July 30Investigators in Kabardino-Balkaria are conducting an investigation after a 16-year-old teenager driving a car hit two children riding electric scooters in the Baksan district of the republic, killing one and hospitalizing the other, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region reports.
«According to preliminary data, at approximately 18:30 Moscow time on Tuesday in the rural settlement of Kuba-Taba, a minor local resident, in violation of traffic regulations, while driving a car, ran over two young children riding an electric scooter on the road,» the report says.
As a result of the accident, one child born in 2011 died, the second — born in 2012 — was injured and taken to the hospital.
«Investigators are inspecting the scene of the incident, establishing all the circumstances of the incident, and a forensic medical examination has been ordered. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided,» the department notes.
According to the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the teenager who hit the children is 16 years old and was driving a Volga GAZ-31105.