In the Leningrad Region, a 10-year-old boy died after crashing his ATV into a power line pole

On November 8, in the village of Maloye Zamositye in the Gatchina district, a 10-year-old child driving a THUNDER 125 ATV without a helmet lost control and crashed into a power line pole. The boy died before medics arrived, and his 11-year-old passenger was hospitalized. Police are conducting an investigation.

Otabek YusupovFirst published on tafs uz 8 November 2026 at 23:052 min read

The key facts

The 10-year-old ATV driver died; the 11-year-old passenger was hospitalized with injuries
According to Baza, the children were riding without protective helmets
Police are investigating the circumstances of the accident

Crash in Maloye Zamositye

In the Leningrad Region, on November 8, a 10-year-old boy who was driving an ATV died in the village of Maloye Zamositye in the Gatchina district. This was reported by the Telegram channel Baza, which is cited by Life.ru. According to preliminary data, the child was riding a THUNDER 125 ATV along Novaya Street and, at around 15:30, lost control of the vehicle: it crashed into a power line pole and then slid into a ditch. The driver sustained fatal injuries and died before medics arrived.

Injured passenger and the investigation

Riding with the boy who died was an 11-year-old friend: the overturned ATV pinned him down. According to Baza, the boy was diagnosed with leg fractures and a closed head injury, although the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs rated the severity of his injuries as moderate — sources differ on this assessment. According to journalists, both schoolchildren were riding without protective helmets. Police are investigating the circumstances of the accident.

Similar incidents this summer

Life.ru recalls two similar tragedies involving children on ATVs. In July, in the village of Tugiyany in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a seven-year-old boy who was riding along the riverbankcollided with a taut cable mooring a motor ship and, despite hospitalization, died; investigators opened a case of causing death by negligence, and the Yugra prosecutor's office took the investigation under its supervision. And on July 3, in the Pavlovsky Posad district of the Moscow Region a Toyota Noah traveling in the same direction crashed into an ATV driven by a 10-year-old child; the car was operated by a drunk man born in 1987. The boy died in the hospital, and the driver was detained on suspicion of committing a traffic violation that resulted in a person's death.