Overview

• Primorye prosecutors reported that a Toyota Mark X crossed into oncoming traffic at the 528th km of the Khabarovsk–Vladivostok highway on September 30 and collided head-on with a VAZ‑21043.
• Both VAZ passengers—a man born in 1954 and a woman born in 1957—died at the scene, while the Toyota driver and his passenger were hospitalized.
• The Primorye prosecutor’s office placed the procedural review under its control to monitor investigative steps.
• In Stavropol on September 29, a minivan providing private passenger transport left the roadway at the 51st km of the Stavropol–Alexandrovskoye–Mineralnye Vody route and overturned, injuring eight people, including two children.
• Regional investigators opened a check under Article 238 of the Criminal Code into service safety, cited a version that the driver may have fallen asleep, and noted one passenger suffered a torn ear but was in stable care.