In the Orsha district, a car collided with a train

April 30, Minsk /BELTA/. A passenger car collided with the Paris-Moscow train, the press secretary of the Internal Affairs Directorate on Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Alexander Marchenko, told a BELTA correspondent. The incident occurred near the Khorobrovo stopping point (Kokhanovo-Orsha section). A resident of the Orsha district, born in 1949, was driving a Volkswagen Passat car with one passenger. The car drove through a red light onto a guarded crossing equipped with functioning light and sound alarms. As a result, a collision with the Paris-Moscow train occurred. Fortunately, no one was injured. The car and the locomotive sustained mechanical damage. The delay in the movement of the Paris-Moscow train was 45 minutes, the Minsk-Orsha train - 10 minutes, and the Orsha-Minsk electric train - 16 minutes. The inspection established that the driver was sober. Approaching the railway crossing, the car's brakes failed, causing the vehicle to drive onto the tracks. The pensioner and his wife managed to leave the car, but it was impossible to save the foreign car. -0-