{"id":603511,"date":"2026-11-14T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T07:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=603511"},"modified":"2026-11-14T12:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T09:41:45","slug":"three-people-killed-in-head-on-collision-between-minibus-and-truck-in-minsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/three-people-killed-in-head-on-collision-between-minibus-and-truck-in-minsk-region","title":{"rendered":"Three People Killed In Head-On Collision Between Minibus And Truck In Minsk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Mercedes Sprinter minibus and a Mercedes truck collided head-on in Staryya Darohi district, Minsk region. Three people were killed in the crash, including a 19-year-old woman.<\/p>\n

The accident occurred today at around 7 a.m. on the R-43 highway, \u201cBorder with the Russian Federation \u2013 Krycha\u016d \u2013 Babruysk \u2013 Ivatsyevichy,\u201d near the village of Novyya Darohi. The 21-year-old driver of the Mercedes Sprinter was travelling towards Babruysk. He moved into the oncoming lane, where he collided head-on with a truck driven by a 54-year-old man. Both drivers and a 19-year-old female passenger in the minibus died at the scene.<\/p>\n

An investigative task force, traffic police officers, emergency personnel, and representatives of the regional directorate and central office of the Investigative Committee are working at the scene.<\/p>\n

Investigators, together with forensic specialists and experts from the State Forensic Examination Committee, are documenting evidence from the crash, collecting items relevant to the investigation and questioning witnesses.<\/p>\n

A criminal case has been opened<\/a> over the accident under Part 3 of Article 317 of the Belarusian Criminal Code (\u201cViolation of traffic rules or vehicle operation rules resulting in the accidental death of two or more people\u201d).<\/p>\n

At the instruction of Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakou<\/b>, the head of the Interior Ministry\u2019s Main Traffic Police Directorate, Viktar Rotchankau<\/b>, was dispatched<\/a> to the scene.<\/p>\n

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A Mercedes Sprinter minibus and a Mercedes truck collided head-on in Staryya Darohi district, Minsk region. Three people were killed in the crash, including a 19-year-old woman. The accident occurred today at around 7 a.m. on the R-43 highway, \u201cBorder with the Russian Federation \u2013 Krycha\u016d \u2013 Babruysk \u2013 Ivatsyevichy,\u201d near the village of Novyya […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":603517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af82cdebd154.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Three People Killed In Head-On Collision Between Minibus And Truck In Minsk Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603518,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603511\/revisions\/603518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}