The accident occurred on March 17 at about 19.00 on the Kyiv-Chop highway near the village of Pyatnychany, Stryi district.
As law enforcement officers have preliminarily established, a Ford Focus car driven by a 32-year-old resident of one of the district’s villages collided with a DAF truck driven by a 45-year-old resident of the Kherson region.
As a result of the collision, the driver of the car died at the scene from her injuries, her passenger, a 31-year-old resident of the same village, died in hospital, and another passenger, a two-year-old girl, was injured and taken to hospital.
Investigators of the Transport Crimes Investigation Department of the Lviv Regional Police opened a criminal investigation into the incident under Part 2 of Article 286 (Violation of the rules of road safety or operation of transport by persons driving vehicles) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for a term of three to eight years with or without deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for up to three years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communication department of the Lviv regional police