TALLINN - Priit Sauk, director general of the Estonian Transport Administration, told Postimees in a live interview that the traffic control center's camera shows that the driver who caused the accident resulting in two fatalities on the Tallinn-Tartu highway on Thursday was actually able to change lanes and even had enough space in her own lane to safely pass the vehicles that had pulled over.
Sauk said that the serious traffic accident that occurred on the Tallinn-Tartu highway last Thursday occurred on a section where the traffic control center's variable information control cameras are also located. According to him, the video clearly shows how all the other vehicles move to the adjacent lane to pass the trucks parked on the side of the road, but for some reason the car that caused the accident does not.
"We can see this traffic flow. So I'm really, sincerely surprised that this car didn't hit the trucks, but hit the two truck drivers nearby. It was a matter of millimeters for this car to have ended up in the back of the second truck. The cause will be determined in the course of an investigation. But it's certainly sad," he said.
On the morning of July 31, two trucks had stopped on the side of the road on the 53rd kilometer of the Tallinn-Tartu highway heading towards Tallinn because one of the trucks had a flat tire.
The drivers of both trucks were outside their vehicles changing the tire when they were hit by a Toyota driven by a 39-year-old woman. The 45-year-old and 53-year-old men died at the scene.
The woman driving the Toyota was not injured in the accident, but was taken to the hospital for a checkup. The woman was sober and had a valid driver's license.
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