A child and five adults were seriously injured in an accident near St. Petersburg.

On the Murmansk highway near St. Petersburg, five adults and a child were seriously injured in an accident. This was announced on August 7 by a source of Izvestia.

The cause of the incident was a collision between a bus and a truck on the 22nd km of the highway near the Tatneft gas station. As a result, several people, including the truck driver, were trapped inside the cabin.

Due to the accident, traffic on the highway was unavailable. Cars are forced to drive through a section of road through the territory of a gas station.

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Earlier that day, three people, including a young child, were killed in a collision between a car and a truck in the Kashira city district of the Moscow region. Traffic police officers are working at the scene. Measures are being taken to establish all the circumstances of the incident. The issue of initiating a criminal case under Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of traffic rules that caused the death of people") is being resolved.

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