WORLD : Yeltsin Suffers Bruises in Crash

Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin badly bruised his right hip and bumped his head in a car accident today in downtown Moscow, the Tass news agency said.

Yeltsin’s Volga sedan, driven by his regular chauffeur, was struck by another at an intersection on Tverskaya Street, formerly Gorky Street, northwest of the Kremlin, it said.

Yeltsin, 59, was taken to a hospital, where doctors found his right hip had been badly hit but was not broken, Tass said.

“Besides, Yeltsin’s head received a slight shock,” Ruslan Khasbulatov, first vice president of the Russian Parliament, told Tass. He said Yeltsin’s overall health is “excellent” but that he needs “treatment and rest.”