“From the materials collected by law enforcement officers, it follows that the driver born in 1989, driving a DAF truck, was moving from the Ulyanovsk region towards the city of Syzran.
On the way, the driver skidded the semi-trailer and drove into the lane intended for oncoming traffic, "TASS quotes the senior inspector of the department for organizational and analytical work and traffic safety propaganda of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the region, Vladimir Ryashchikov.
He noted that a check is being carried out on the fact of the incident, after which a procedural decision will be made.
Earlier it became known that the death toll in an accident with a bus in the Samara region increased to 12.