Two killed in road traffic accidents in N Kazakhstan

The first one occurred on September 21 at "Zhezkazgan-Petropavlovsk" road near Amangeldinskoye village.
On preliminary data, a driver of Lada-21900 failed to control his car and crashed into KaMaZ truck.
Following the accident, the 60-year-old Lada driver died at the scene, a seven-year-old girl had different injuries and was admitted to a hospital.
The same case occurred in the near-by district the day before. A VAZ-2106 driver collided with a KaMaz truck. The 46-year-old VAZ driver died at the scene. The truck driver had no injuries.
Since the beginning of the year, 270 car accidents was registered in the region. 40 people were killed, 341 injured. In comparison with the analogous period of the last year the road accidents' number decreased (277 accidents in which 46 killed and 329 injured.) According to analysis, main reasons of the road traffic accidents are speeding and drunken driving.