Firuz Shatlykov (B-27), the police press officer, stated that he lost control of the steering wheel when he reached the Halkbank Circle at the Nicosia Northern Ring Road intersection. Shatlykov was driving toward Famagusta in his car with license plate FN 600 at the time of the traffic accident on the Nicosia-Gazimagusa main road at 00:15 in the morning.
Shatlykov fell into the about 4-meter-deep pit after crossing the circle and colliding with the steel barricades to the left of the road. Bahadur Jora Muradov, a passenger in the car, and the driver of the vehicle, Firuz Shatlykov, who suffered injuries in the collision, were taken from Nicosia Dr.
He was followed following his treatment at Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital. The event is still being investigated by the police.
