A man died in an accident involving three cars near Sergiev Posad.

A man was fatally injured in a collision between a truck and two passenger cars in the Sergiev Posad city district. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow region on Monday, June 9.

"Today, a truck and two passenger cars collided on 5 km of the Deulino–Novosti highway. As a result of the accident, the driver of one of the foreign cars was killed, and the passenger was hospitalized with injuries," the press service told the Moscow city News agency.

Currently, traffic police are establishing all the circumstances of the accident.

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The relationship with the victim was recognized as a mitigating circumstance.

Earlier that day, the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Russian Interior Ministry told Izvestia that 698 road accidents had occurred on Russian roads over the past weekend, killing 82 and injuring 918 people. 75 of the dead were passengers and drivers.

On June 6, the Ministry of Transport of the region reported that in five months, more than 1.3 thousand people had been identified in the Moscow region. Accidents involving the dead and injured. The indicator grew by 3% over the year, clarifies 360.ru .

Earlier, on June 1, five cars were involved in an accident in the Bogorodsky city district of the Moscow region. As a result of the accident, the driver of a 1952 Nissan was killed on the spot, and his 1954 passenger was injured and hospitalized, RT reports.