Crimean auto inspectors for the week stopped 151 facts of drunk driving

During the week from 5 to 11 October, 25 road accidents were recorded in the territory of the Republic of Crimea. This was reported in the press service of the State Traffic Inspectorate of Crimea.

As a result of the accidents, four people died and 24 received injuries of varying severity, four of the victims were minors.

Separately, the agency cites data on pedestrian collisions. There were 12 such incidents in a week. In these accidents, four people died, eight were injured, and half of the victims were minors.

In addition, traffic police stopped 151 cases of driving with signs of intoxication. In 16 of them, drivers were re-involved – for this there is criminal liability.

We will remind, in October on the roads of the Crimea there were a number of resonant incidents. On October 9, in Kerch, a 34-year-old Volga driver in a state of intoxication faced Mazda: a 35-year-old foreign car driver and a 9-year-old child were injured, both received one-time medical care, and the culprit’s car was seized and placed in a special parking lot.

On the same day in Feodosia, a local resident appeared before the court, who again sat behind the wheel of a Volkswagen under the influence of alcohol - he had previously been punished for refusing medical examination, and after a new accident again refused to undergo inspection.

In addition, on October 10 in Dzhankoy driver Chevrolet Lanos born in 1998 hit a pedestrian born in 1958, crossing the road in the wrong place – the man died on the spot. On October 11, in Kerch, a 34-year-old Toyota driver while passing a regulated pedestrian crossing on Sverdlov Street ran into an elderly man. The pedestrian died of his injuries.