The driver who survived the road accident near Codreanca village of Strășeni district was detained. The young man stays at the Strășeni District Hospital under police guard. He is in a conscious state, but has not yet been questioned.
Mariana Didenco, press officer of the Strășeni Police Inspectorate, has told IPN that biological blood samples were taken from the young man to see if he was drunk at the time of the accident and a relevant certificate will be issued to the police.
Anatol Avram, traumatologist at the General Surgery Unit of the Strășeni District Hospital, stated for IPN that the patient was hospitalized in a serious condition. “After clinical and radiological examinations, the diagnosis of polytrauma was confirmed,” the doctor said. Now the young man is in the General Surgery Unit, under guard. He is stable, out of danger, has an appropriate behavior and answers questions.
Following the accident, five children were taken out of the two cars that caught fire. Spokesman for the Mother and Child Institute Maxim Cazacu has told IPN that three of them are still in a serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit, where they will remain for at least two more days. Two other children continue their treatment at the Orthopedics Unit.
The accident occurred on the morning of August 10. Preliminarily, it was established that one of the drivers did not make sure it was safe and, performing an overtaking maneuver over the solid line, crashed the car into another car coming from the opposite direction. In one of the two cars that were engulfed in flames, a Mitsubishi, a 17-year-old teenager and a 56-year-old woman burned to death. In the second car, an Opel, the driver and two passengers, a 32-year-old woman and a 54-year-old woman, died. Before the rescuers arrived, passersby managed to get five children, aged 6, 7 and 13, out of the Mitsubishi, and a child aged one year and another one aged 9 from the Opel.
