A woman hit a mother with two children at the Kia Sportage crossing northwest of Moscow, the pedestrian woman and her son died at the scene.
“Sunday evening, the driver of a Kia car lost control at 12 Svobody Street, colliding with pedestrians, as a result of which the woman died,” the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow reported.
The eldest child died as a result of the accident. A ten-month-old girl in a wheelchair survived, she was urgently hospitalized. A criminal case was initiated.
According to media reports, 37-year-old Natalya Ukrainskaya drove Kia. Footage recorded by security cameras shows the car rolling over after the collision. The driver was injured of varying severity, she.
The MK publication reported that shortly before the accident, the woman entered the tram tracks and collided tangentially with a tram that was standing on the neighboring tracks. However, she did not stop after that, she continued on the tracks. After a while, the car skidded, landed on the pavement and crashed into pedestrians.
KP.RU, the driver told the police that he fell ill while driving and lost consciousness. Eyewitnesses who were also at the scene of the accident told the broadcast that the woman got out of the car herself and was always nearby.
Drugs and tougher penalties
The Moscow prosecutor’s office said that at the time of the accident, the suspect of the accident was in a state of drug intoxication.
“First, the woman used drugs from the cannabinoid group before she drove,” a source from law enforcement told RIA Novosti.
If before the results of the examination the woman was threatened with imprisonment for up to seven years, now – up to 15 years in prisonand its actions are qualified under paragraphs “a” and “b” of part 6 of article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The criminal case was transferred to the central office of the capital’s Investigative Committee.
“In the near future, the woman will be accused of committing the specified crime, and the court with the participation of the prosecutor will consider the issue of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention,” said its head, Lyudmila Nefedova. Press service of the Moscow prosecutor’s office.
Didn’t avoid collision
Moscow resident Andrei, who witnessed the incident, told socialbites.ca that the driver certainly did not step on the gas. According to him, the car was moving as if on a caterpillar – the driver did not try to dodge the collision with the pillars standing on the pavement.
“He didn’t hit the gas, so the car was going downhill. Then he gets off this sidewalk and goes right to the sidewalk where this woman with small children is. And I saw them well, I even shouted for him to go, but he just stopped there, ”said Andrey.
According to the man, the car was running smoothly “as if the person driving the car had passed out”.
“If a woman stepped on the gas and stopped, the car would accelerate, but here it was rough. “I’m afraid the speed was 40-50 km/h,” he said.
Andrei noted that after the accident, the eldest child still showed signs of life, and the mother “is no longer breathing.”
“There was a mother on one side of the car and a baby on the other,” he said. – The ambulance came quickly, the boy lying in the snowdrift was immediately taken away. Nobody touched him. Eyewitnesses tried to lift him but then shouted to let him go. And the girl was pumped out for 15 minutes.
According to Andrei, the driver at first did not understand what was happening, and after eyewitnesses told him, he became hysterical.
“There was no smell of booze. It was normal, he was standing on his feet. I asked him if he was using anything, he said no. All I asked him was if there was anyone else in the car. He said it was a small dog. The men looked at the car and then the rescuers came – there was no dog there,” he said. man.
He claimed that the driver told the toy terrier dog in shock.