A large-scale accident occurred in the Mukachevo region. As a result of a collision between a minibus and a truck, 4 people were killed.
This was reported on February 20 by the State Emergency Service of the Transcarpathian region.
“Near the village of Nizhniye Vorota, Mukachevo district, local rescuers eliminated the consequences of a horrific car accident, as a result of which four people, including one child, died. Another person received polytrauma,” the State Emergency Service wrote.
Consequences of the accident/Photo by the State Emergency Service
4 people died in the accident/Photo by the State Emergency Service
Details of the accident
The tragedy occurred at 11:58 on the Kyiv-Chop highway. A Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van collided with a Renault truck. The cause of the accident is not yet known.
Rescuers got the injured driver out of the cab of the truck. Doctors gave him first aid. Subsequently, employees of the State Emergency Service released the bodies of the dead from the minibus. Law enforcement officers are investigating all the details of the accident.
The tragedy occurred on the Kyiv-Chop highway/Photo by the State Emergency Service
Another accident with a truck
In the Lviv region on February 19, on the Kyiv-Chop highway, a truck collided with a Renault Megan. A 33-year-old woman with an 8-year-old child was in the passenger car. The driver received multiple fractures, and the child suffered a closed craniocerebral injury and polytrauma.
Accidents in Ukraine: latest news
- At the exit from Lviv on February 14, the tractor was torn in half. The causes of the accident are unknown.
- Also in the Lviv region, in Zhovkva, on February 12, the driver lost control of the car and drove into the house. The driver and 3 passengers died on the spot.
- On February 9, in Kyiv, a car crashed into an ambulance transporting a child to an operation.
