In the Vitebsk region, a car failed to yield to a truck, two people died

May 15, Minsk /BelTA correspondent/. In the Vitebsk region, a car failed to yield to a truck, killing two people. Anna Banadyk, senior inspector for special assignments of the Traffic Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, told a BelTA correspondent about this. The accident occurred on May 14 at 6:00 AM. A 55-year-old citizen of Armenia (residing in Russia), driving a Ford Mondeo, failed to yield to a MAN truck when exiting a secondary road. As a result of the collision, the car driver died at the scene, and his passenger (a 33-year-old woman, a citizen of Russia) died a few hours later in the hospital. In total, 242 traffic accidents with property damage occurred on the roads of Belarus in 24 hours, and inspectors detained 129 drivers for drunk driving.-0-