As a result of the road accident, two people were injured. As the press service of the region's police reports, the accident occurred about six o'clock in the evening on the Nikolaev-Odessa highway, the driver of the Mersedes Benz car, moving towards the city of Odessa.

According to preliminary information, the foreign car first crashed into the cargo DAF, and then collided with the car "VAZ", which moved in the opposite direction. Ambulance after the accident was taken to the hospital with injuries of varying degrees of severity of the driver and a passenger "VAZ". According to the conclusion of the survey, the driver of the minibus Mercedes Benz was in a state of alcoholic intoxication.

The police opened a criminal case on the fact of the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Violating the rules of road safety or the operation of vehicles by persons driving vehicles.

The sanction of this article provides for punishment in the form of a fine of two hundred to five hundred non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or correctional labor for up to two years, or arrest for up to six months, or restriction of freedom for up to three years, with deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of up to three years.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in Kiev as a result of a collision of two cars in the street Stetsenko in Podolsky district, one person was killed, another injured.