In Irkutsk, in the morning at the intersection of Sovetskaya and Karl Liebknecht, a crash involving four vehicles, including a minibus taxi, occurred. According to preliminary data, the Honda Accord driver ran a red light, after which the car hit the minibus, a Honda CRV and a VAZ-2104. The culprit has already been fined 800 rubles, and details and comments are in the report.
Today at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Sovetskaya and Karl Liebknecht streets, an accident occurred involving 4 vehicles at once, including a minibus taxi.The driver of the Honda Accord ignored the red traffic light and collided with a minibus taxi that was heading toward Baikalskaya. Then the passenger car crashed into another vehicle — a Honda CRV. The impact spun the SUV around 90 degrees. Also damaged in the accident was a VAZ-2104, which was waiting at the traffic light.
"I was driving along 1st Sovetskaya from the puppet theater. I was in the second lane. The light turned green, and I started moving. He hit me from the left; I didn’t even see him. I ended up here. I came to, and there was such a mess here, a bunch of cars standing," says Stanislav Svyatnenko, the driver of the Honda CRV.
"It has been preliminarily established that the driver of the Honda Accord was driving on a prohibited traffic signal. An administrative report has been drawn up against him, and a ruling has also been issued to hold him administratively liable in the form of a fine of 800 rubles," said Ivan Dobrovolsky, inspector of the press service of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the city of Irkutsk.