Author: Veronica Saiko
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Eyewitnesses report an accident at the intersection of Pritytsky and Lobanka streets near the Kamennaya Gorka metro station. At least three ambulances, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the traffic police are working on the spot.
Judging by the photos and videos, a bus, a trolleybus and a Geely Coolray crossover were damaged.
– The bus touched the car, demolished the fence and drove into the trolleybus, which was driving in the oncoming lane. They waited for an ambulance for more than seven minutes – the passengers of the trolleybus needed help. One of them was taken out of the salon and laid on the grass, – reports our reader, who was at the scene of the accident.
At least four people were injured, four ambulances were sent to the scene. Some people were examined and immediately released home. I heard a passenger of a trolley bus talk about an accident: allegedly, a wheel burst on the bus, and because of this, everything happened. From her words, lThe people broke the windows in the trolley bus to get the victims out. – said another eyewitness who approached the scene after the accident happened.
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At 22:23 the traffic police commented on the accident. Some of the assumptions of eyewitnesses were not confirmed.
– At about 20:50, a 31-year-old woman, driving a Geely, at the intersection of Kuntsevshchina and Pritytskogo streets, when turning left at a traffic light, did not provide an advantage and collided with an oncoming MAZ bus. From the impact, the latter hit a metal fence, and then, continuing to move, collided with a trolleybus.
Eight passengers of public vehicles were taken to a health facility for examination.
The Ministry of Health also supplements information about the accident. Doctors say about seven victims. Five of them were taken to healthcare facilities: three to the emergency hospital, two to the 5th hospital in Minsk. Two more received medical assistance on the spot, they refused hospitalization. All victims were diagnosed with injuries of varying severity, including craniocerebral, bone fractures and bruises.
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