The Main State Traffic Police Office issued a statement on a serious traffic accident in Sumgayit yesterday, which killed three people.

The department told APA that Baku resident Seymur Fikret oglu Aliyev, born in 1985, “Mercedes -Benz E320 ”with state registration number 90-TF-497 lost control while driving in the direction of Guba region and overturned by hitting a metal partition.

As a result of the accident, the driver S.Ahmadov and his passengers - his wife Alakbarova Fidan Movsum gizi, born in 1999, and his son Aliyev Hamza Seymur oglu, born in 2021, died.

It should be noted that the people killed in the accident are close relatives of a family of 5 people who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Gusar region that day and for some reason hurried to the region.

According to preliminary information, the car was driven at a speed exceeding the speed limit on the road, but the driver lost control and it was impossible to prevent the accident due to the unevenness of the road surface.

None of them fastened their seat belts and were thrown out of the car, which ended their lives.

"Once again, we ask road users to comply with the speed limit on the road and to fasten their seat belts.

A criminal case has been launched under Article 263.3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and an investigation is under way. "