Novosibirsk’s Leninsky District Court sentenced a local resident to eight years and seven months in a penal colony with a three-year driving ban for trying to hide from traffic cops while drunk in 2022. his fault. It has been reported kp.ru.
According to the newspaper, a criminal case was opened against 27-year-old Aleksey Knyazev under two articles – Article a of the Criminal Code (Regulation of the road by a person driving a car, tram or other mechanical vehicle, or negligently causing the death of two or more people, committed by a person in a drunken state. operation of vehicles). It was noted that the extenuating factor was the man’s participation in hostilities in Syria.
“Being in a drunken state, driving a technically sound Lada Priora without an OSAGO insurance policy in the dark, ignoring the stop requests of traffic cops on the loudspeaker, followed the main road on Svyazistov Street and carried two people. Aleksandra Fedorova, deputy prosecutor of the Leninsky district, told the newspaper that passengers were not wearing seat belts.
The man ignored the inspectors’ warning to stop and tried to escape. At 90 km/h, it fell into a hole that workers had dug at the intersection of Svyazistov and Zabalueva streets to repair the heating main. The driver was not seriously injured, one of his passengers died at the scene, the second in the ambulance. At the same time, utilities emerged from the pit minutes before the accident, which may have also been damaged.
After the court decision is announced, the person will be taken into custody, while the person concerned will be kept in the detention center until the decision comes into force.
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