A child was injured in a road accident involving five cars in Irkutsk

In the Oktyabrsky district of Irkutsk as a result of a collision of a passenger car with four other cars suffered a child. About it the regional UMVD reports in its Telegram-channel.

The accident occurred in the evening on Saturday, December 28, on Baikalskaya Street. The car Ford Focus crashed immediately into four hit-and-run cars, after which he fled the scene. It is assumed that the driver did not take into account the road conditions and failed to cope with the control.

As a result of the accident, a seven-year-old passenger of one of the cars was injured. Information about the condition of the child is not given, but IA IrkutskMedia writes that he was taken to hospital.

The culprit of the traffic incident is being sought. The city prosecutor's office put the check started by the police officers on control.

Earlier in the day it was reported about a massive accident in another region of Siberia. On the federal highway "Chuisky trakt" in the Altai region 27 cars collided at once.