7 Killed in Two Separate, But Related Car Crashes in Western Georgia
Six people, including two children, died in a car, which collided with a passenger van, carrying three people, close to the village of Supsa in western Georgian region of Guria on Saturday evening.
Both of the vehicles became engulfed in flames after the crash.
When an ambulance vehicle, which was carrying a woman from the passenger van injured in the accident, was on its way to a hospital in the town of Poti, it collided with a police pickup.
The woman, who survived in the first car crash, died.
A driver, a nurse and a paramedic from that ambulance vehicle, as well as two police officers from the pickup truck required hospitalization.
Total of 2,689 road accidents were reported in Georgia in the first half of this year with death toll reaching 284.
511 people died in total of 5,992 road accidents last year, according to official data.
