"Around 23:00 during the registration of the accident, a Lexus car crashed into a traffic police car in the Gagarinsky tunnel," a TASS representative quoted as saying.
According to updated data, the traffic police officer who was in the official car was killed.
Now all the circumstances of the incident are being established.
In January, it was reported that a police officer was killed, another six people were injured in an accident involving two cars in Kireevsky district of the Tula region.
Newinform also reported that a pensioner was killed as a result of a double accident in St. Petersburg.