The police, examining the road accident that claimed five lives, determined that the Audi car with a Transnistrian license number that was driven by a 33-year-old inhabitant of Geamana village was speeding when he headed for Chisinau and lost control of the vehicle. This collided head-on with a Dacia car driven by a man aged 38 from Gura Bicului village.

Press officer of the Anenii Noi Police Inspectorate Silvia Vetcu has told IPN that two of the persons who died were occupants of the Audio car – the driver and a passenger aged 64 from Chisinau municipality. The other three victims who perished were a 22-year-old man and his daughter aged one year and a half from the Dacia and the driver of this car. A woman aged 24 and another one aged 23, who is the mother of the child who died, were hospitalized.

Requested by IPN to provide details, press officer of the Emergency Medicine Institute Petru Cravet said the two women suffered different traumas and were admitted to the traumatology and neurosurgery sections.

The accident occurred near Todiresti village of Anenii Noi district in the morning of January 15.