Two employees of the U.S. Embassy were involved in automobile accidents in Moscow over the weekend, Interfax reported. No one was injured in either accident.
On Saturday evening, a Moscow resident his late 40s and driving a Nissan Maxima collided with a Volkswagen Jetta with red diplomatic license plates on the intersection of Uralskaya Ulitsa and Shchelkovskoye Shosse in northwestern Moscow, the report said, citing the police. The Jetta was driven by a political and ecological analyst at the embassy, it said.
In the other accident, also Saturday, a Jeep Commando driven by a secretary in the embassy’s political department struck a VAZ-2107 that was stopped at a red light. The accident happened in front of 12 Smolenskaya Naberezhnaya, not far from the embassy.
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