Medvedev orders probe into fatal car accident involving oil executive | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the interior minister to probe last week’s car crash in Moscow involving a LUKoil vice-president that killed two doctors, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The crash, which provoked public outrage, caused the deaths of a well-known gynecologist, Vera Sidelnikova, and her daughter-in-law, Olga Alexandrina, also a doctor.
The accident occurred on February 25 on Moscow’s Leninsky Prospekt when the chauffeur-driven Mercedes of the LUKoil executive, Anatoly Barkov, collided with the small Citroen driven by Alexandrina.
Barkov was hospitalized with minor injuries, while his driver, Vladimir Kartayev, refused medical treatment.”