Three people were injured in a bus accident in the Leningrad region.

Three people were injured in a collision between a car and a bus in the Vsevolozhsky district of the Leningrad region. This was announced on August 15 in the press service of the Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the region.

"At the intersection of Yuzhny Highway and Griboyedov Avenue in Vsevolozhsk, an accident occurred involving a Land Cruiser car and a scheduled passenger bus route No. 6. As a result of the collision, both vehicles slid into a ditch," the department's Telegram channel says.

It is noted that there were ten passengers on the bus. According to preliminary information, three people were injured in the accident — both the driver and the passenger of the bus, they were hospitalized. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

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