“On the fact of a road traffic accident, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Art.

264 of the Criminal Code of Russia, ”the message says.

In the course of the inspection organized by the prosecutor's office, the timeliness of the arrival of the operational services at the scene of the incident, as well as the completeness of the provision of medical assistance to the victims, will be assessed.

On the morning of May 15, at the 298th km of the M-1 “Belarus” highway in the Smolensk region, a passenger minibus, in which there were 20 people, and a truck collided. As a result of the accident, 13 citizens of Belarus were hospitalized, three of whom are in serious and extremely serious condition.