Sixteen persons were rushed to the hospital with different injuries following a serious road accident that happened in the center of Chisinau this morning. A minibus running on route No. 110 collided with a car and overturned at the intersection of the streets Mihail Kogalniceanu and Mihai Eminescu. Antonina Talpa, press officer of the Traffic Police Division, has told Info-Prim Neo that the overturned minibus was raised by eyewitnesses, who helped the passengers get out. They told the police that all the seats in the minibus were occupied and several persons were standing when the accident occurred. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, Ciprian Gherasim, of the National Scientific-Practical Center of Emergency Medicine, said that 16 persons were brought to the hospital, two of whom - the driver and a woman who suffered a pelvic fracture – were admitted to the reanimatology section. The other 14 persons are being examined. An investigation is under way to establish the circumstances of the accident and who is to blame.