The accident occurred today around 10. 50 in the streets of Heroes of Labor, 15, in Saltovka, the Kharkov patrol police department reported.. The pedestrian got under the tram of the 27th route and was killed. 31-year-old wagon driver in shock shocked ambulance.

According to the information of the Director of the Department for Information and Mass Communications of the Kharkiv City Council Yuri Sidorenko, the pedestrian could not hear the warning signals of the tram.

"In the streets of Heroes of Labor - before stopping" Metro station "Heroes of Labor", walked in headphones, not at a pedestrian crossing, did not respond to signals. The driver of the tram signaled him, but he apparently did not hear. He braked, but did not have time to stop, "he wrote on the Facebook page shortly after the accident.

In the communication department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kharkiv region, it was clarified that the man in appearance about 30 years old, his identity has not yet been established.

"At the scene of the tragedy, law enforcement officers found headphones that were lying separately from the body of the deceased," the police said..

Law enforcers decide on which clause of the Criminal Code to qualify the incident.

Source: MediaPort.