Story By: Feza Uzay, Sub-Editor: Marija Stojkoska, Agency: Newsflash
This is the moment a young woman loses control of her Lada on a wet road while overtaking another vehicle and swerves into an oncoming car, killing both drivers and a passenger.
The accident took place on a section of the M9 Baltic Highway in the district of Zubtsovsky in the Russian federal subject of Tver Oblast at around 8.20 am on 28th October.
The video was filmed by the dash-cam of the motorist the young woman was overtaking moments before the crash.
The footage was shared by the Press Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Tver Oblast along with a statement on 28th October.
The statement said the motorist was a 21-year-old woman, name not disclosed, who was operating a Lada Granta when she swerved into the opposite lane and collided with a Lada Riva/VAZ-2107.
Due to the impact, debris from both cars was scattered across the road and three people were killed.
The victims have been identified as both drivers and a passenger in the Lada Riva/VAZ-2107, names not reported.
Two other passengers were injured in the accident and taken to a nearby hospital. It is unclear which car they were travelling in.
The police investigation into the accident is ongoing, and investigators are studying the video footage from the dashboard camera.
In Russia, millions of cars are equipped with dashboard cameras in order to make clear in the event of incidents where the fault occurred.
The footage can be used in making insurance claims or in providing evidence to the police that there was no fault by the driver.
The cams also provides thousands of videos including meteorites crashing through the sky, wild animals on the road or the more usual car accidents.
In this case, the car involved, a Lada, is not known for speeding and is often the butt of jokes based on the fact that the cars were popularly believed to be badly engineered.
In the UK, there is even a whole category of Lada jokes, even though in Russia they are mainly referred to as being VAZ vehicles, which is a short form for the Volga Automotive Plant.
The vehicle was also manufactured under the names Zhiguli, Oka, and Sputnik, which were stopped in the 1990s in order for ‘Lada’ to take their place.
