Police are investigating a traffic accident that happened on Friday (7 March) in the afternoon in Michalovce. A nine -year -old local girl ran into the driver, he couldn’t prevent the collision. Regional police spokeswoman from Košice Jana Mésarová for TASR confirmed that the accident happened on Sobranecka road I/19.
The spokeswoman said the vehicle was driven by a 56-year-old driver from the Sobrance district. “According to the findings to date, the driver drove the vehicle in the direction of Sobrance, where a minor pedestrian ran into his label, hitting the right side of a moving motor vehicle,” She added that the girl was transported to the Košice hospital after a collision. According to a preliminary medical report, she suffered minor injuries with the expected treatment period within six weeks.
The driver on the spot underwent a breath test for alcohol with a negative result, and the drug test for drugs was also negative. The driver and his co -driver were not injured in a traffic accident. “The vehicle was preliminarily about EUR 500. Given that a larger number of people gathered at the scene of the event, police patrols supervised public order, it was not disrupted, “concluded Mésarová.
