A 74-year-old man died after the car he was driving was hit head-on by a minibus. The van is believed to have ended up on the wrong side of the oncoming lane because the driver had blacked out. The accident occurred this afternoon at the entrance to the Ciorescu commune of Chisinau municipality, IPN reports.
The General Inspectorate of Police says that it has been preliminarily established that a Mercedes minivan, driven by a 54-year-old man, veered off the opposite lane. Following the maneuver, it collided head-on with a Toyota Urban Cruiser, driven by the 74-year-old man.
The driver of the Toyota died on the spot and the driver of the minivan was taken to hospital for medical investigations. According to the doctors, he was suffering from diabetes mellitus and had lost consciousness at the wheel.
An investigation has been launched to establish the exact circumstances of the accident.
Also today, another serious accident took place at the entrance to the village of Susleni, Orhei district. A 57-year-old man lost control of the steering wheel and crashed his car into a tree. Doctors have preliminarily established that the driver died of cardiac arrest.
At the same time, the police announce that the driver who caused last night's accident in Balti, which resulted in the death of a child, has been placed under arrest. He was in an advanced state of inebriation and ran the red light, crashing the taxi in which the girl and her mother were sitting. Internet users wrote that this was not his first offense and that he had previously admitted to traffic violations but was allegedly protected by relatives in the system.
