On September 24, at approximately 17:15, on Korolenko Street in Lepel, a driver born in 1990, operating an Opel Vectra car and moving from Polotsky Trakt Street towards Vera Margevich Street, failed to maintain a safe distance from a Volkswagen Golf car moving ahead in the same direction, driven by a resident of Lepel born in 1979.

As a result, a collision occurred, after which the Volkswagen Golf car collided with a BMW X5 car moving ahead in the same direction, driven by a resident of Lepel born in 1968.

As a result of the road traffic accident, passengers born in 1976 and 2001, seated in the rear of the Volkswagen Golf car, sustained bodily injuries and were hospitalised in the surgical department of the Healthcare Institution "Lepel Central District Hospital".