Two persons suffered injuries in the Bahmut car and cart collision that resulted in four deaths. These are a man aged 63 and a four-year-old girl. The girl was transported by the Aviasan Service to Chisinau. The other child who died at the scene was three months.
Contacted by IPN for details, press officer of the General Police Inspectorate Diana Fetco said that a three-month-old child, a 30-year-old man and two women aged 38 and 64 died as a result of the collision.
Călărași District Hospital vice director Ion Veveriță said the baby and the 64-year-old woman died on the spot, while the 38-year-old woman died on the way to the hospital. The man aged 30 passed away in the hospital even if doctors resuscitated and intubated him.
Ion Veveriță noted that the 63-year-old man who remained alive suffered associated trauma, traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures and is now under intensive care. The four-year-old girl also suffered multiple fractures, a concussion and associated trauma. She was taken to the Mother and Child Institute in Chisinau by the Aviasan Service on Friday evening.
“The girl was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Mother and Child Institute with a number of injuries. She is in a coma,” the Institute’s spokesman Maxim Cazacu has told IPN.
The accident occurred on the R-1 road in Bahmut village of Călărași district on Friday evening. A car struck a cart from behind. The driver was subject to a breathalyzer test and this was negative. Blood samples were also taken from him and are to be examined.
The press reported that the car was driven by an employee of the Ungheni Prosecutor’s Office. Contacted by IPN for details, officials of the Prosecutor General’s Office said that a press release will be released on the issue.
