Woman crushed to death under wheels of trolleybus

A 70-year-old woman was killed when she was crushed under the wheels of a trolleybus in Chisinau, while a young man lost his life in a road accident in Comrat on Thursday, March 18. Paulina Iakimovski, of the Traffic Police Division's PR department, has told Info-Prim Neo that the woman was crossing Vasile Alecsandri St when she was struck fatally by a trolleybus running on route No. 7. An investigation is under way. A speeding driver aged 25 lost control of the car while going through Comrat town. The car overturned. The driver was killed, while the passenger was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. A 23-year-old man studying at the Slavonic University crashed his BMW into a billboard on Stefan cel Mare Blvd. in Chisinau. She suffered a concussion, while the passenger aged 24 received minor injuries. A BMW driven by a resident of Cimislia district aged 59 ran into a Volkswagen-Golf driven by a 20-year-old Chisinau inhabitant at the intersection of Alexandru cel Bun and Tighina streets. The second car was projected into a LIAZ bus. A girl traveling in the Volkswagen sustained a concussion and facial injuries. On Thursday, there were reported 20 more road accidents without victims, 16 of which in Chisinau. The traffic police fined 107 speeding drivers and 31 drivers traveling with the seat belt not fastened. The 352 traffic accidents that happened in Moldova this year resulted in 46 deaths and 482 persons injured.