“The day before, at about 16:30, the police of the Promyshlennovsky municipal district received a message that three cars collided on the 159th kilometer of the Novosibirsk-Leninsk-Kuznetsky-Kemerovo-Yurga highway,” Interfax reports.

According to preliminary data, the driver of the Renault timber hauler stopped to let oncoming cars pass, and at that time a passing Isuzu car crashed into his semi-trailer, and a Сadillac Escalade crashed into it, in turn.

As specified, as a result of the incident, five people were injured.

Earlier in Saratov, in a collision of nine cars, five people were injured, including one child.