"Bastrykin instructed the staff of the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian IC in St. Petersburg to immediately initiate a criminal case on this fact," RIA Novosti quotes.

On December 30, at the intersection of Nevsky Prospect and Naberezhnaya Fontanka River, two cars collided.

After a collision with a Subaru Forester, a Mercedes car flew out onto the pavement of Nevsky Prospect. As a result of the incident, six people were injured.

The vice-governor of the city, Anna Mityanina, said that two injured in an accident are in serious condition, three are in a state of moderate severity, and the child was discharged after the examination