Police have established preliminary circumstances of an accident in the Ulyanovsk region

SAMARA, July 28 The police have established the preliminary circumstances of an accident involving eight cars in the Ulyanovsk region, in which 10 people were injured and a woman died.
As previously reported by the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, a massive accident occurred at about 10:15 Moscow time in the Tsilninsky district on the 164th kilometer of the federal highway A-151 «Tsivilsk-Ulyanovsk».

«It has been preliminarily established that the driver… of a Man truck with a semi-trailer (a resident of the Republic of Tatarstan) lost control and hit a Lexus driven by a man (a resident of the Saratov Region) that was stopped at a red light on a section of the road under repair,» the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia told journalists.
The impact caused the foreign car to hit a Toyota Land Cruiser 300 parked in front of it and then, in a chain, hit a Toyota Land Cruiser 200, Lada Vesta, Datsun, Nissan Almera and a Scania truck.

As a result of the accident, 11 people were taken to the hospital, including three children aged 2 to 5. The passenger in the Lexus, born in 1959, died in a medical facility from her injuries.
A criminal case is being investigated regarding the accident, initiated under Part 3 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation «Violation of traffic rules and operation of vehicles».