“According to preliminary data, the driver dozed off the wheel, as a result of which he lost control over the control, the car drove into the oncoming lane and drove off the highway, where it rolled over and lay on its left side,” TASS quotes the head of the press service of the Sverdlovsk Interior Ministry head Valery Gorelykh .

According to him, the victims were taken to the hospital.

The accident occurred at about 05:10 Moscow time in the area of ​​242 km of the Perm - Yekaterinburg highway.

Inforeactor previously reported on the start of the audit after a major accident involving a passenger minibus in Omsk, which resulted in seven people being hospitalized.