VELIKY NOVGOROD, July 29 (RIA Novosti) - Three persons died in a head-on truck collision in northwestern Russia, the regional traffic police said Sunday.
The road accident occurred at about 09:30 p.m. Moscow time (05:30 p.m. GMT) Saturday at the 568th kilometer (353rd mile) of the Moscow-St. Petersburg federal highway, the traffic police said.
Traffic on the highway was blocked after the incident and came back to normal in the early hours of Sunday, the traffic police said.