Penza, 14 September 2011. PenzaNews. Two persons were lost, including a child, and five children got injuries as a result of road accident with passengers of automobile "GAZ". An accident took place near the shop "Buratino" in the  Pobeda Prospect in Penza in the evening on Wednesday, September, 14th. According to the senior state car inspector of the department of traffic police on the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Penza region Vitaly Ivanov, the motor vehicle going in passing direction "LADA Priora" ran into the line taxi moved from microdistrict Arbekovo towards the center of the city and minibus ran into a column and inflamed.

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The source said: "The man and the child presumably 8 years old were lost on the site. 4 passengers and the driver of the line taxi got injuries".

He added that the operative group will establish the reasons and circumstances of the accident.

According to the eyewitnesses, salon of automobile "GAZ" burned out completely.

Traffic on the bridge from Arbekovo to the center of the city is temporarily blocked, all transport goes along the street Tsiolkovskaya.