"According to preliminary information, as a result of the accident, four people were injured and were taken to the hospital - their personalities and the nature of the injuries received are being clarified," TASS reports.

According to the traffic police, the Toyota Corolla was driving from Novosibirsk to Kamen-na-Obi.

At 02:45 local time (22:45 Moscow time), on the 13th kilometer of the road, he collided with a VAZ-2105 car following in front and pushed it into the oncoming lane, where it collided with a Nissan car. 

Earlier, ten people were injured in an accident with a bus in the Balakhninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region.