Bicyclist suffers open skull fracture in accident

The inattentiveness of a driver could cost a bicyclist traveling on a road in Causeni district his life. Traffic Police Division spokeswoman Dana Andronic has told Info-Prim Neo that a Volkswagen-Passat driven by a 25-year-old man did not see the bicycle owing to poor visibility in fog and struck it from behind. The 42-year-old bicyclist sustained serious traumas – an open skull fracture, a femur fracture and a backbone injury. The victim was rushed to the Causeni district hospital. An Opel-Vectra driven by a 26-year-old man struck a cart on a road in Comrat. The 28-year-old cart driver suffered a thoracic trauma and was hospitalized. An inebriated 35-year-old man from Edinet crashed his Dacia-Logan car into a VAZ-2109. A woman aged 21 from the VAZ suffered a shank injury. A Mercedes struck an 18-year-old girl in a crosswalk near Patria Movie Theater situated on Stefan cel Mare Blvd. in Chisinau. The girl suffered a cranial-cerebral trauma, a concussion and head and facial injuries. Twelve persons were hurt in 11 accidents that happened on the national roads on November 24.