A car collides with a truck on the Kyiv-Chop highway: two dead, a child injured
Kyiv • UNN
Two people were killed and a 2-year-old girl was injured in a collision between a Ford Focus and a DAF truck on the Kyiv-Chop highway near the village of Pyatnychany in Lviv region on March 17.
Two people were killed and a 2-year-old girl was injured in a collision between a Ford Focus and a DAF truck on the Kyiv-Chop highway in Lviv region on March 17, the regional police reported on Monday, UNN reports.
Details
The accident occurred on March 17 at about 19:00 on the Kyiv-Chop highway near the village of Pyatnychany, Stryi district, Lviv region.
As law enforcement officers have preliminarily established, a Ford Focus car driven by a 32-year-old woman and a DAF truck driven by a 45-year-old resident of Kherson region collided.
"As a result of the collision, the driver of the car died at the scene from her injuries, her passenger, aged 31, died in hospital, and another passenger, a two-year-old girl, was injured and taken to hospital," police said.
A criminal proceeding was opened under Part 2 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Violation of the rules of road safety or operation of transport by persons driving vehicles). The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for a term of three to eight years with or without deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for up to three years.
