A number of 13 passengers of a minibus running on the Chisinau-Ceadar-Lunga route were taken to the hospital in the morning of August 9 after the minibus in which they travelled collided with a vehicle.

Contacted by IPN, the head of the Cimislia District Police Inspectorate Vasile Ion said the accident happened on the Cimislia-Chisinau route, not far from Ecaterinovca village, at about 7am. The preliminary investigations showed the driver of a Nissan from Comrat crashed the car into the minibus at high speed when he changed to the opposite direction lane. The 30-year-old man died on the way to the hospital. The minibus driver wasn’t hurt.