In Kostroma, the court ordered the motorist to pay compensation to the family of the deceased pedestrian

The Dimitrov district court of Kostroma partially satisfied the claim of the city prosecutor's office for compensation of moral damage from a woman driver who shot down a pedestrian to death. Payments are made to the widow, parents and minor brother of the deceased.

The tragic incident occurred in December 2025 on the highway Kostroma — Nerecht. In the dark, the car hit a man who died at the scene from incompatible with life injuries.

Initiation of criminal proceedings against the driver was refused for lack of corpus delicti. During the proceedings, it turned out that the accident occurred on an unlit section of the highway. The deceased was in a state of alcoholic intoxication, walking in a passing direction in dark clothes without reflective elements. The examination confirmed that the driver did not have the technical ability to avoid a collision.

The woman herself denied guilt in the accident, but did not dispute the fact that the man was injured from the impact on her car (by law, the owner of the source of increased danger is civil liability even in the absence of direct guilt).

Initially, the prosecutor’s office insisted on compensation of 500 thousand rubles in favor of each of the four relatives. The court, having assessed the behavior of the deceased, the circumstances of the accident, the property status of the defendant and the suffering experienced by the family, reduced the amount of the claim. According to the court decision, the motorist must pay 225 thousand rubles to each applicant (a total of 900 thousand rubles).

The judgment has not yet entered into force.

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