At kilometer 53 of the Irkutsk Kachug highway, a horrific head on collision between two cars killed six people. According to traffic police, the driver of a Mazda Axela crossed into the oncoming lane and hit a Toyota Spacio carrying a family from Ust Ordynsky. Only a 12 year old girl survived, taken to hospital with fractures. Her parents and one and a half year old sister died. Investigators and rescuers are at the scene, and the probe is under the control of regional police and traffic police chiefs.
Two passenger cars collided on a dangerous section of the 53rd kilometer of Highway 1R-418 (Irkutsk-Kachug). According to traffic police inspectors, the female driver of a Mazda Axela sedan, traveling from Lake Baikal toward Irkutsk, lost control and crossed into the oncoming lane, where it collided with a Toyota Spacio traveling from Irkutsk. As a result of the severe head-on impact, three girls riding in the Mazda died at the scene. The Toyota was carrying a family from the settlement of Ust-Ordynsky — two adults and two children. A 12-year-old girl was taken to the district hospital with limb fractures. Her parents and her one-and-a-half-year-old sister were killed.It is known that at the time of the crash, the young child was in a special child seat. The front airbags deployed in both foreign-made cars.
Police experts, investigators, traffic police inspectors, and rescuers are working at the scene. The investigation into the tragic incident is under the control of the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Angara Region and the head of the regional traffic police, who went to the crash site.
According to materials from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Irkutsk Region