Government official blamed for fatal car crash in W Kazakhstan

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Local government official Khaidar Koshchanov is to blame for a fatal road accident that happened in the town of Uralsk in West Kazakhstan region, Kazinform has learnt from Uralskaya Nedelya newspaper. Koshchanov is the deputy of local maslikhat.

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According to reports, on March 29 Koshchanov was driving his Toyota SUV and didn't give way to a VAZ-21703 vehicle. The VAZ car crashed into the SUV and then rammed into an Audi 80 vehicle parked on the roadside.

As a result of the collision, VAZ driver Vyacheslav Lopukhin aged 22 and his 63-year-old passenger Nadezhda Kondrashkina died at the scene. The Audi 80 driver sustained head injury.

The local police are investigating.