Penza, 29 August 2015. PenzaNews. Five people died in a tragic traffic accident on the 755th km of the M5 “Ural” federal highway passing through Kuznetsk in the Penza region that took place at 1.00 am of Saturday, August 29. According to a preliminary report of the regional Ministry of the Interior department available to PenzaNews agency, the driver of a BMW car drove onto the opposite lane and collided with a Scania truck.

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“Five people in the BMW car have died in the incident. Three of them have been identified: the driver, Kuznetsk citizen born in 1979; and two women, born in 1963 and 1971. The remaining two victims are being identified,” the police continued.

The traffic accident is under investigation, the MIA department elaborated.