the Hockey club the Higher hockey League “southern Ural” Artem Karpenko died in road accident near Penza. His private car collided with a “Gazelle” on 647 kilometer of the highway M-5 “Ural”.
21-year-old Karpenko, and one of the passengers “gazelles” has died on the spot from the received traumas, informs official site of HC “South Ural”. After the collision both cars caught fire, they began to put out the drivers of a passing car.
Karpenko was a graduate of the Orsk hockey school. Played at the quarterback position.