A ten-year-old boy and his mother were killed when hit by a garbage truck in Krasnoyarsk

In the Leninsky district of Krasnoyarsk, a garbage truck hit a woman with a ten-year-old child at a pedestrian crossing. The boy died on the spot, his mother died of severe injuries in the hospital, the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported on its Telegram channel.

The tragedy occurred on Thursday afternoon, March 27, at the intersection of Lvovskaya and Kishinevskaya streets. According to police, the 48-year-old KAMAZ driver, when turning right, ran over two people crossing the roadway at an unregulated pedestrian crossing.

A 10-year-old child died from his injuries at the scene, writes KrasnoyarskMedia news agency. His mother, a 34-year-old woman, was taken to the hospital and hospitalized, but she could not be saved.

A criminal case has been opened into the incident under Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Violation of traffic rules that negligently caused the death of two people." The maximum sanction of this article provides for up to seven years in prison.

On the morning of March 27, it was reported that two cars collided in Novosibirsk, resulting in the death of two people. According to preliminary data, the accident was caused by a 19-year-old BMW driver who was intoxicated.