Penza, 16 December 2015. PenzaNews. The identities of all four victims of the resonant traffic accident that took place in the Kuznetsk area of the Penza region in the morning of Wednesday, December 16, have been identified.

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The driver of the Peugeot Boxer small-scale bus, born in 1981, as well as passengers – man born in 1987, and two women born in 1997 and 1969, died from lethal injuries, the press service of the Penza region traffic police department informed PenzaNews agency.

“The driver of the MAN long-haul truck, man born in 1985, also received injuries. Three more passengers of the small-scale bus – man born in 1979, and two women born in 1972 and 1981 – have been hospitalized,” they added.

As PenzaNews agency reported earlier, a MAN long-haul truck going from the Novosibirsk region has collided with a Peugeot Boxer small-scale bus with the license plate from the Samara region, on the 766th km of the M5 “Ural” federal highway in the Kuznetsk area of the Penza region in the early hours of Wednesday, December 16.

Four people died at the scene, and four more received injuries in the crash. Shortly afterwards, the media learned that one of the women who died in the accident was pregnant.

The incident is still under investigation.