SK: the cause of the accident with three victims in the Tolochinsk district were worn tires and slippery road

The Investigative Department of the UCK in the Vitebsk region found out the circumstances of the accident, in which three people were injured. This is reported on the website of the Investigative Committee, writes sb.by.

According to the materials of the investigation, in the afternoon of May 10, 2025, a 35-year-old resident of Borisov was driving a RAM car on the M1/E30 Brest (Kozlovici) - Minsk - the border of the Russian Federation (Redki). Near the village of Staraya Budovka of Tolochinsky district, the driver lost control of the control, went to the oncoming lane and collided with the Geely Atlas crossover.

As a result of the incident, the driver and two children in the cabin of the pickup truck were not injured, but the 35-year-old passenger of RAM received serious injuries. Severe injuries were also found in the Geely driver and passenger, who were not buckled at the time of impact.

“A number of critical factors that led to the tragedy have been identified by the auto-technical examination. The speed of the RAM car was about 97 kilometers per hour, while the car had a technical malfunction: the wear of the tread of one of the tires, which contradicts the Rules of the road and prohibits the operation of the vehicle. In conditions of a sharp deterioration of the weather - precipitation in the form of rain with hail and the formation of a slippery road surface - the driver of the pickup truck showed carelessness and chose an unsafe speed, the IC said.

According to experts, the driver of the oncoming Geely had no technical ability to prevent the collision. The investigation department added that the accused had previously been repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility through the traffic police.

According to the results of the investigation, the man was charged under Part 2 of Art. 317 (violation of the Rules of Road Traffic and Vehicle Operation by the person driving the vehicle, which caused serious bodily harm by negligence) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

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