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Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
In the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv in the morning 19 of August a fatal traffic accident occurred, a car crashed into a bus stop with people. This was reported by Kyiv Police.
“According to preliminary information, at around 8.50 the driver of a Volkswagen at full speed collided with a minibus, after which it rammed into a bus stop with people. There are fatalities and injuries,” the release says.
At the scene, an investigative-operational group from the Kyiv city police department for road accident investigations, patrol police, and doctors are working.
The number of injured, circumstances, and the mechanism of the road traffic accident are being established, police reported.
The Public "Real Kyiv | Ukraine" published a video from the scene (caution, sensitive footage).
Two days earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council due to the situation on Ukraine’s roads. He commented on another high-profile accident in the Golosiivskyi district of the capital, in which a BMW crashed onto the terrace of an establishment’s outdoor area and overturned. There were no fatalities, the driver sustained injuries. Zelensky also recalled petitions regarding the road situation and appeals, notably from Oleksii Hlyshych, the father of a 12-year-old boy who died as a result of a crash when a Mercedes plowed into people in a underground pedestrian crossing.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "У Києві авто в'їхало в зупинку з людьми. Є загиблі й травмовані". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Gordon.
