In Moscow on Bolshaya Yakimanka, a Porsche 911 at high speed hit a pole and literally split in two. Two people died in the crash. Preliminary reports say one may be the 23 year old son of former Irkutsk region governor Igor Yesipovsky, but there is no official confirmation yet. Police are investigating the tragedy, including possible alcohol in the drivers blood.
The son of the former governor of the Irkutsk Region died in a Porsche torn apart by the impact.On June 27, as a result of an accident on Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow.
Due to the impact with a billboard support in the center of Moscow, the Porsche 911 was torn into two parts. According to preliminary data, one of them may be the 23-year-old son of the former governor of the Irkutsk Region, Igor Esipovsky, who died on Lake Baikal in a helicopter crash in 2009.
"On Bolshaya Yakimanka Street at 07:20, the Porsche driver, moving at high speed on a wet road, lost control and crashed into a pole. According to preliminary data, there were two people in the car, both died," the city traffic police said.
The impact with the pole was so strong that the car was torn into two parts.
"According to information from the scene, the name of the man who died in the accident is Igor Esipovsky. The information is currently being clarified, but it may turn out that he is the son of Igor Eduardovich Esipovsky, former governor of the Irkutsk Region and State Duma deputy, who died in a helicopter crash in 2009 on Lake Baikal," a source in law enforcement told the publication.
In 2008, Igor Esipovsky Jr. moved from Moscow to Irkutsk after his father, who became governor of the Angara region. However, the young man did not stay in Irkutsk for long. He followed the example of his older sister Evelina and enrolled at MGIMO in the Faculty of Journalism, which he successfully graduated from in 2013.
Esipovsky Jr. had the same interests as his father: car racing and hunting. It was probably these hobbies that became the cause of both of their deaths.
The identities of the deceased have not yet been officially confirmed or commented on. There are currently no data on the presence of alcohol in the blood of the deceased driver.
The police are investigating the causes of the tragedy.