A dog provoked a road accident with three fatalities in Nizhny Novgorod region

In Nizhny Novgorod region a car collided with a truck because a dog suddenly ran out on the road, three people died. About it on December 17 reported in the Ministry of emergency Situations of Russia.

"Near the village of Chernyshikha passenger car collided with a truck. The accident was provoked by a dog that suddenly ran out on the road. Russian Emergencies Ministry specialists extinguished the cars and unblocked three people. Unfortunately, they all died," the ministry said in a statement.

The driver of the truck was not injured. The liquidation of the accident was handled by four specialists who used one unit of equipment.

Earlier in the day in the Ulyanovsk region, a foreign car and a truck collided, five people were killed. Preliminarily, the driver of the car did not cope with the control and drove into the oncoming lane, crashing into the truck. All the dead were in the passenger car, and the truck driver was hospitalized.