The accident occurred on the 352th km of the Samara-Orenburg highway, 2 km from the village of Perevolotsky.

A Lada Granta car and a cargo van collided.

"As a result of the accident, the driver of the Lada Granta car and two passengers, including a child, died from their injuries at the scene of the accident, one minor passenger was taken to a hospital with injuries," TASS reports. 

As the agency reports with reference to the Ministry of Health of the Orenburg region, the surviving child in serious condition was taken to the Novosergievsk hospital, where, according to the source, he died.

Police officers and other emergency services are working on the spot.

All circumstances of the incident are established. 

Earlier, a two-year-old girl and her mother died in an accident in the Volgograd region.