 Eventually it turned out that Sakalov's security staff used the car as an illegal "flasher-taxi" during his absence from Moscow.On January 19, 2011, a head-on collision, between an Opel Astra and a BMW 5 Series took place on the Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway.The former car carried a young 23-year-old woman who was seriously injured with multiple fractures.