In Kolomna, the driver of a Gazelle hit a pensioner while reversing

A woman was injured and hospitalized after being hit by a Gazelle car in Kolomna. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow region on Tuesday, September 16.

The incident occurred at 3:10 p.m. near one of the houses on October Revolution Street.

"According to preliminary information, a driver born in 1996, driving a Gazelle truck, hit a woman born in 1958 while reversing along the sidewalk. As a result of the accident, the injured woman was taken to a medical facility," the press service told the Moscow City News agency.

Currently, traffic police are investigating all the circumstances of the accident.

"Continuity is the key to road safety"

The head of the Russian State Traffic Inspectorate, Mikhail Chernikov, in an interview with Izvestia, spoke about how the new national project will reduce accidents on the roads.

On the same day, four people died after a collision between a car and a truck in the Perm Region. 360.ru . At the 94th kilometer of the highway, the Renault Duster driver drove into oncoming traffic and collided with a Volvo truck. Due to the impact, the car was thrown under a Gazelle and a Toyota Land Cruiser passing in the same direction.

Earlier, on September 5, a criminal case was opened in the Trans-Baikal Territory after a scooter driver knocked down a 17-year-old resident in the sixth month of pregnancy, RT reports.

Over the past day, 348 road accidents have occurred on Russian roads, in which 39 people were killed and 403 injured. 34 of the dead were passengers and drivers. This was reported to Izvestia on September 16 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

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