The police are investigating the circumstances of a man’s death as a result of a train collision in the Lviv district
The law enforcement officers once again appeal to the citizens – be as attentive and careful as possible while on the railway tracks, cross them only in the prescribed months, making sure that there is no train. Remember that the railway is a high-danger zone.
As the law enforcement officers established, on October 1, around 9:45 a.m., a 48-year-old local resident who was crossing the track at a closed crossing was fatally injured as a result of a collision with a Zaporizhzhia-Uzhgorod train at a regulated railway crossing (picket No. 7 – Shchyrets village, Lviv district) .
According to the fact, the investigators of the department of investigation of crimes in the field of transport of the police of Lviv region opened criminal proceedings under part 3 of article 276 (Violation of traffic safety rules or operation of railway, water or air transport) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for punishment – deprivation of liberty for a term of five to ten years.
Law enforcement officers are establishing all the circumstances of the incident.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police