SK will investigate the case of a major accident near Saratov – RIA Novosti

12:0015.01.2017

(updated: 12:03 15.01.2017)

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SARATOV, January 15 — RIA Novosti, Eduard demjanets. Criminal case on the fact of an accident involving a truck and a minivan in the Petrovsky district of the Saratov region, which killed seven people, was referred for investigation from the police to the bodies of the Russian Investigative Committee, told RIA Novosti senior assistant head of the regional SUCK Catherine Persky.

the accident occurred on Sunday night on the highway Nizhny Novgorod — Saratov near the village of Tarumovka Petrovsky district of the Saratov region. Earlier in the regional head office of Ministry of internal Affairs reported that the 33-year-old driver of the truck, going from Penza, lost control and crossed into the oncoming lane, where it crashed into the minivan. The accident killed seven people. The police opened a criminal on the fact of road accident, the driver of the truck detained.

“Investigating bodies SK the Russian Federation it is accepted to manufacture criminal case brought by bodies of internal Affairs on the fact of road accident in the Petrovsky district”… the truck Driver is detained as article 91 UPK the Russian Federation, in the near future will be solved a question on election to it measures of restraint”, — said the Agency interlocutor.

She said that as a result of the accident killed two women and five men, all of them are citizens of CIS countries.

a Source in law enforcement bodies of the region said RIA Novosti that according to preliminary data, five of the victims are citizens of Kyrgyzstan, and one citizen of Uzbekistan and one citizen of Tajikistan.

Earlier, the head of the Petrovsky district of the Saratov region Denis Fadeev has told RIA Novosti that according to preliminary information, the accident killed seven citizens of Kyrgyzstan, going to work. Fadeev also noted that the driver of the truck, according to preliminary estimates, may have fallen asleep at the wheel.

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