"Today, at about 6:20 a.m., a traffic accident occurred at 135 km of the Belgorod-Pavlovsk highway, which killed four people," the department’s website said in a statement.
As a result of the accident, both drivers and two passengers of the VAZ were killed.
According to the latest information, the driver of the Hyundai Solaris allowed the car to leave for oncoming traffic.
An investigation and operational group is working at the scene.
Previously, the publication Rostovgazeta.ru reported a decrease in the number of accidents in the Rostov region by 22.6% since the beginning of 2019.