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Near Yekaterinburg, a FAW tractor unit crashed into a pair of two dump trucks: two people killed

Early in the morning on November 8, at the 236th kilometer of the Yekaterinburg — Tyumen highway in the Talitsky district, a FAW tractor unit collided with two dump trucks, one of which was towing the other. The driver and passenger of the truck died at the scene, and the driver of the towed dump truck was hospitalized. The State Traffic Inspectorate preliminarily names failure to keep a safe distance and unsafe speed as the cause.

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New-generation MAZ with the KamAZ K5 cab shown on video for the first time

Belarus's Ministry of Industry published photos and a video of a prospective MAZ with a cab from the KamAZ K5 series. The cab was developed jointly with Daimler on the basis of the Mercedes-Benz Actros and adapted for the Belarusian chassis. For MAZ, this marks a move away from the outdated 5440 cabs; for KamAZ, it means additional loading of capacity by 45,000 cabs per year.

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