“I did not go”: under Gomel very drunk driver, trying to deceive the traffic police, moved to the seat of the passenger

In the Gomel district detained a driver who was driving in the stage of severe alcohol poisoning. At the time of the inspection, he tried to deceive the inspectors, writes sb.by.

The incident occurred on one of the tracks near Gomel. The attention of the crew of the road patrol service attracted the minibus. Turning on flashing beacons and an audible signal, inspectors ordered a stop. The driver fulfilled it, but immediately, in front of the traffic police, he began to bustlingly transfer to the passenger seat. He said he wasn’t actually driving the car. There was no one else in the salon. However, the illusionist trick failed. A 36-year-old man with obvious signs of alcohol intoxication was taken for a medical examination. More than 3.8 ppm of ethyl alcohol was found in the air exhaled by it. This concentration corresponds to the extreme degree of alcohol intoxication and means severe poisoning, in which the help of resuscitators may be needed at any time.

- The citizen was brought to administrative responsibility under Part 2 of Art. 18.15 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus, - reported on the results of the incident in the department of agitation and propaganda of the traffic police of the Gomel regional executive committee. He was fined 200 base units, which is nine thousand rubles. The offender is also deprived of the right to drive vehicles for five years. The car is placed in a guarded parking lot.