Four people died in a head-on collision between a car and a truck on the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway in Russia’s northwest Novgorod Region, traffic police reported.
“The car accident occurred on the 547th km of the route,” a police spokesman said, adding that the information became available late on Tuesday.
Preliminarily, the driver of a Renault Logan sedan lost control of his car and swerved into the oncoming lane. Four people inside the car died.
It was not immediately clear whether there had been more than four people inside the car.
None of those in the truck was injured.
In 2010, Russia saw about 200,000 car accidents, in which over 26,000 people were killed and more than 250,000 were injured. According to traffic police, 85 percent of the accidents happened because drivers violated traffic regulations.