Penza, 8 October 2019. PenzaNews. Two people were injured in an accident involving a Mercedes-Benz car with a semi-trailer on the M5 Ural federal highway in Bessonovsky area of Penza region on Tuesday, October 8. This was reported by the propaganda department of the traffic police of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

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"It is preliminarily established that the Mercedes-Benz car with a semi-trailer driven by a man born in 1980 swerved off the road and subsequently overturned. As a result, the driver and a passenger of the car – a woman born in 1999 – received injuries and were taken to a medical facility," the State Traffic Police explained.

The institution added that investigation on the fact of the accident had been initiated.

Сauses and circumstances of the accident are being investigated.