Crash on Perm-Yekaterinburg Highway Kills Factory Worker and Mother

On January 31, a terrible accident occurred on the Perm–Yekaterinburg highway: a driver hit a mother and daughter while they were pulling their car out of a ditch. It has become known who the victims were.

Last Saturday, January 31, near Bisert, the driver of a VAZ-2107 lost control of the vehicle – it skidded so that the car ran over two women. At that moment, they were retrieving their Chevrolet from the ditch. Both women died on the spot. As our colleagues from E1.RU found out, they were 53-year-old Natalya Arestova from Revda and her 73-year-old mother Alexandra Leonidovna. On the day of the accident, they were driving to a relative«s birthday in Chernushka, when their car veered into the ditch. Natalya»s husband was at the wheel.

Natalya and Alexandra Leonidovna got out of the car to help push it back onto the road. It was at that moment that they were fatally struck by the VAZ.

“Kolya [Natalya«s husband] had already driven out of the ditch at that moment. He says: ‘I turn my head, and Natalya flies over the car,’” Natalya»s daughter told E1.RU. “Grandma was thrown into a snowdrift. She died immediately. And mom was still alive when the ambulance arrived. She was breathing, and her eyes were open. But the doctors immediately said that there was nothing they could do to help her.”

Natalya«s daughters arrived at the accident scene and saw that the road was in terrible condition: only one lane was clear, and the roadway itself was covered with a layer of ice.

“Because of the snow, the road was sheer ice, you could put on skates and go. Of the two lanes, in fact, only one was available. We, of course, don«t know how fast the driver of the ‘seven’ was going. But he assures that he wasn»t speeding,” the daughter of the deceased said. “When the bodies were already lying there, a workers« truck arrived and started covering the road.”

Alexandra Leonidovna worked all her life at a factory in Revda. Her daughter followed in her footsteps and worked as a compressor unit operator. In her free time, Natalya performed in an amateur theater.

“She acted in plays, appeared as an extra in movies, went to pools, did water aerobics. Everywhere, everything that the factory had to offer where one could participate, she was always there. So active,” Natalya«s daughter said. “Grandma was also full of life, planted a garden, helped build the house, never had any illnesses, never sat still.”

Previously, we wrote about what acquaintances say about the deceased driver of an ambulance that crashed near Kudymkar.