U.S. citizen injured in Zhambyl oblast road accident

08:29, 19 January 2010

TARAZ. January 19. KAZINFORM /Galina Skripnik/ A U.S. citizen got heavy injuries in a road traffic accident in Baizak municipality of Zhambyl oblast. According to the doctors of the Taraz Municipal Emergency Hospital, the 26-year-old woman is in a bad condition at present.

As the press service of the Zhambyl oblast emergencies department informed, the accident occurred January 17 on the 505 km of Almaty-Tashkent highway in Baizak municipality. A 50-year-old driver of KrAZ-54361 which belongs to Kyzylorda-based TransAsiaContraction could not make the vehicle and collided with Audi-100 which was driven by a 30-year-old citizen of Ryskulov municipality.

As a result, the driver of Audi died at the spot. His passenger, a citizen of Merke village, suffered from heavy injuries and died in intensive care unit of the Taraz Municipal Emergency Hospital.

The other three passengers including the American woman temporarily living in Merke village got various injuries and were taken to the Taraz Municipal Emergency Hospital.

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