Five people were injured in a road accident with a school bus in Kalmykia

In Kalmykia on the highway Astrakhan-Elista-Stavropol there was an accident involving a school bus, which injured five people. This was reported by the Interior Ministry in the region in Telegram-channel on January 23.

"The driver of the car "Lada-Priora" made a tangential collision with a bus moving in the opposite direction <...>", - stated in the statement.

It is specified that from the scene of the accident hospitalized the bus driver and four passengers of the car, including three minors.

The bus received minor mechanical damage, there are no casualties among schoolchildren.

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Theaccident with a school bus and a passenger car also on this day occurred on the highway Volgograd - Kotelnikovo - Salsk earlier. To the site of the accident went the leadership of the regional State Automobile Inspectorate and the investigative and operational team of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Oktyabrsky district. It was specified that as a result of the accident a child was killed and seven injured.