Two girls from Chisinau received different injuries when they were struck by cars. Dorina Iakimovski, senior specialist at the Traffic Police Division's Public Relations Service, has told Info-Prim Neo that five road accidents happened in Moldova on Tuesday, February 9. Nine persons were hurt in them, including two minors. An Audi car hit an 11-year-old girl on Grenoble St in Chisinau. The girl got her knees injured. A girl aged 15 was struck by a Ford on Muncesti St. She was taken to the hospital with a cranial-cerebral trauma. A 50-year-old man was hit by a Toyota on Hristo Botev St in Chisinau and sustained a malleolar fracture. Another three persons suffered injuries in a car accident in Sangerei town. A Huyndai ran into a Volkswagen parked by the roadside, damaging it and causing injuries to three persons. Twenty-three persons lost their lives in traffic accidents in Moldova this year. 253 persons sustained injures.