The accident happened in the evening on Saturday on the highway Kyiv-Kharkiv.
In Poltava Oblast, a passenger bus crashed into a truck. Three people died, 8 were injured. This is reported by the regional police.
The accident happened around 4:00 p.m. on the Kyiv-Kharkiv highway near the city of Lubny. According to the police, a Mercedes-Benz passenger van crashed into a MAN truck parked on the side of the road.
The driver and one passenger of the minibus died on the spot, another passenger died in the ambulance. In addition, 8 other passengers, including two children, suffered various injuries.
The situation on the roads of Ukraine
On Saturday, a huge 15-kilometer traffic jam was formed on the Odesa-Reni highway due to bad weather and a traffic accident. In order not to aggravate the situation, the authorities temporarily prohibited the movement of trucks in this area.
In Chernihiv Oblast, a car went into a river from a pontoon crossing. Traffic on the pontoon crossing had to be stopped for some time.
In Odesa, a pensioner hit pedestrians during a test drive of a car. She ran over a man and his 4-year-old son, both of whom were hospitalized.
