One more person injured in Kharkiv road accident dies in hospital

One more person injured in a deadly road accident on Sumska Street in Kharkiv, 20-year-old Diana Berchenko, has died in hospital, the local portal Status Quo has reported, with reference to the press service of Kharkiv Regional State Administration.

According to doctors, Berchenko died at 09.45 on Thursday, October 26.

Thus, the death toll from the road accident grew to six. Five more people injured in the accident stay in Kharkiv hospitals.

According to the report, Diana's elder sister, Oksana, is also one of those injured. Oksana's husband, 27-year-old Oleksandr Yevteyev, died.

As reported, on October 18, in the centre of Kharkiv, a Lexus car driven by 20-year-old Olena Zaitseva, moving at red light, collided with a Volkswagen Touareg. As a result of the collision, the Lexus moved to the sidewalk on Sumska Street and ploughed into 11 pedestrians, killing five of them on the spot. Six others, including a pregnant woman, were hospitalized.

Zaitseva was detained for 60 days without the right to post bail.

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