Drunk Kia Sportage driver and Volvo crash on the Naujoji Akmenė–Venta road

On Monday, 27 October 2025, in the evening at 20:20, in Akmenės district municipality, on the Naujoji Akmenė–Venta national road (kilometre 13.30), a collision while moving in the same direction occurred. The collision involved a Kia Sportage and a Volvo XC60. One person was injured — the 59-year-old driver of the Volvo (treated as an outpatient). The accident was caused by the 46-year-old driver of the Kia (28 years of driving experience), who failed to choose a safe speed. He was drunk (1.61‰ blood alcohol). At the time of the accident it was dark, the road was unlit, it was raining, the road surface was wet. The speed limit on this section is 90 km/h.

Date / Time

Monday, 27/10/2025, 20:20

How it happened

Rear-end collision

Type

Collisions while moving in the same direction

LocationCorrected by the coordinates

Krašto keliai Naujoji Akmenė–Venta, 13.3 km, Akmenės r. sav.

Recorded locationPolice data

Krašto keliai Naujoji Akmenė–Venta, 14.5 km, Akmenės r. sav.

The coordinates lie on the same road, but at 13.3 km rather than the recorded 14.5 km, so the location by the coordinates is taken as the true one.