It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the regional traffic police.

It is specified that the accident occurred on the 21st kilometer of the Shopsha-Ivanovo-Nizhny Novgorod highway in the Balakhninsky district.

“Two cars collided - Mazda and Lada Granta, in which there were a total of 10 people. As a result, three people died, all adults. Seven more people were injured, including two children, ”the department said.

According to preliminary data, the cause of the accident was the departure of one of the cars in the oncoming lane.

In February, URA.RU wrote that two adults and a five-year-old girl died as a result of an accident in the Chelyabinsk region.