1,100 houses without gas in Moscow reg due to pipeline emergency
15:55, 29 September 2009
MOSCOW. September 29. KAZINFORM More than 1,100 private houses and 200 apartments in the Moscow region remain without natural gas supply due to an accident on a gas pipeline on the Novorizhskoye highway, Moscow region' s police told Itar-Tass on Wednesday, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
In an incident in the Krasnogorsk district on the 28th kilometre of the Baltia federal highway a driver of a Toyota car lost control of the vehicle, as a result the car skidded off the road into a ditch and hit a gas distribution station of the main gas pipeline with the diameter of 300 mm owned by the Mosoblgaz company. This collision caused a fire that was liquidated in two hours. The Toyota driver died of burns.
The emergency restoration efforts continue, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full verison.