Two children were injured when a car crashed into a ditch in Karelia

Three people, including children, were injured in an accident in the Pitkyarantsky district of Karelia. This was reported on August 11 in the press service of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the republic.

"Today, on August 11, at approximately 12:40 p.m., an accident occurred on 76 km of the Suoyarvi-Koirinoya highway, in which three people were injured...> the driver was born in 1996 and two child passengers aged seven and eight," reads a post on the VKontakte social network.

It is noted that the driver of the VAZ lost control — the car slid into the left ditch and overturned. At the moment, the circumstances of the incident are being established.

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