In St. Petersburg, the car fell into a pit with boiling water, according to media reports, the driver, who was in the car at that moment, received severe burns. Local resident Olga Smirnova, who saw the incident from the window, said that the man himself managed to get out of the car, but fell, and eyewitnesses tried to save him.

“It happened around midnight. He turned to Leni Golikov, a pipe with hot water burst, the steam was thick as fog, apparently, he got scared, turned into a pedestrian zone and fell through. I know that he got out on his own, and then fell, his eyewitnesses saved him, he screamed very much when they took off his clothes along with his skin. Emergency services arrived quickly and began to notify about the danger zone, the road was immediately blocked, hot water flowed down Leni Golikov in the direction of Stachek. The drivers of the cars that were standing there could not approach the cars. Just as quickly, an ambulance and emergency personnel arrived. Water and heating were turned off for about two hours somewhere, but everything was quickly returned, ”she said.

Smirnova added that the pipes in this section of the street are changed several times a year.

“They often dig, people joke that they are looking for a treasure. Pipes are changed twice a year, they dig, and we are not told why. It’s scary that this is a pedestrian zone and in the morning someone again takes the child to the garden, they go to work at school, but imagine if it were in the morning, how many people would die, ”she concluded.

On the night of February 22, on Leni Golikov Street in St. Petersburg, a car fell into a pit of boiling water. The driver of the Mercedes car was seriously injured, he was taken to the Janelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine. After rescuing the Petersburger, emergency services began to evacuate the car from the pit.

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