The key facts

  • Road accident involving three cars on Sergey Makeyev St., 5s9; traffic jam of about one kilometer
  • Deptrans recommended that drivers take a detour
  • Information about the injured was being clarified

Traffic jam on the exit from the city center

On the morning of November 6, traffic from central Moscow toward the Moscow region was hampered by a major accident on Sergey Makeyev Street, near building 5s9. As Gazeta.Ru reports citing the Telegram channel 'Deptrans. Operatively', three cars were involved in the collision, and the city's emergency services worked at the scene. According to the channel, the traffic jam toward the region stretched for about one kilometer. The circumstances of the accident and information about any injured people were being clarified at the time of publication; Deptrans advised drivers to choose detour routes around the problem section.

Context of previous reports

This is not the first report of transport problems in the capital in recent days: earlier, on October 30, it was reported that an accident paralyzed southwest Moscow. No connection between these incidents is indicated in the publications. Separately, Gazeta.Ru described a road accident in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai, where a foreign-made car plowed into pedestrians at the moment of the collision: according to the publication, a street camera captured the car being thrown into people by the impact, then onto the road, where it overturns, while the pedestrians are thrown several meters. As a result, an 18-year-old victim was hospitalized, and the second pedestrian received assistance at the scene.