According to Associated Press , citing representatives of the Nice police that, together with 40-year-old Kerimov, TV presenter Tina Kandelaki was in the ill-fated black Ferrari Enzo. On November 24, she received a TEFI award for work in the TOK show "Details" on the STS channel. After the awarding ceremony, Kandelaki, along with a group of employees of the TV channel, was invited to celebrate the event on the Cote d'Azur. Suleiman Kerimov also rested there, who had Antibol Villa on Cape.
Around 15.30 on Saturday, Kerimov and Kandelaki rode from the airport towards the center of Nice. On the English embankment, the sports car flew out onto the roadsides and crashed into a tree. The blow was so strong that the car literally torn into two parts. Fuel leaked from the gas tank flared up. Tina Kandelaki practically did not suffer, getting off with small burns and bruises. A motorists who arrived in time for the rescue for the rescue for help. Kerimov was able to get out of the cabin on his own. He immediately rushed to the ground, trying to knock down a flame with clothing covered by fire. A businessman was sent to a specialized burn department of the Conception Clinic in Marseille on a sanitary helicopter, where he was connected to an artificial respiration apparatus. Now the victim is in a state of artificial coma and has not yet come into consciousness. Doctors are very careful in forecasts regarding the recovery of Kerimov - he has been burned up to 70% of the body surface. Everything will become clear in the next 48 hours. Representatives of the Russian embassy in France are in constant contact with the local authorities, but they refrain from commenting on the incident. As they themselves explain, this is done at the request of the relatives of Suleiman Kerimov. Yesterday, the wife of the entrepreneur was supposed to arrive in Marseille.
Tina Kandelaki was still taken to the hospital, where she was provided with first aid in connection with the burns of her arms and hips, reports Ar. But a few hours later she left the clinic and soon flew to Moscow. “She is at home, preparing for the shooting of the next program. I talked with her-everything is fine,” said Alexander Chernov, head of the STS Media press service yesterday. In addition to the programs "Details" and "The Most Smart" Tina Kandelaki leads the "U -turn" program at the Echo of Moscow radio station. However, she did not appear yesterday: “I allowed her to miss the air because of a trip to Nice,” explained the editor-in-chief of Echo Alexei Venediktov.
Representatives of the local police cannot yet name the exact cause of the accident. According to one version, a car accident could occur due to a significant excess of the speed of Kerimov. On this road, speed is limited up to 50 kilometers per hour, and eyewitnesses assure that Ferrari literally flew along the highway, overtaking passing cars. It is curious that the sports car itself (its cost is about 675 thousand euros) belonged not to Kerimov, but to one of his friends living on the Cote d'Azur. Some experts have already suggested that the businessman simply could not cope with the management of a supermant car. However, his colleagues in the deputy faction of the LDPR is called this version: according to them, Kerimov drives the car for many years and is a very experienced driver.