Overview
- Regional emergency services report four fatalities after a Renault Logan collided with a freight train at a crossing on the Samolukovo–Nasva section in Loknyansky District.
- Regional police later said the victims include the car’s driver and three female passengers.
- The railroad says warning systems were functioning and the locomotive engineer used emergency braking, but the impact could not be avoided.
- Initial rail operator reports cited three deaths with the driver in serious condition; authorities subsequently updated the toll to four.
- The Northwest Transport Prosecutor’s Office opened an inquiry into compliance with crossing safety rules, and passenger train traffic was not disrupted.