A criminal case was sent to court on charges of a Minsk woman who lost consciousness while driving and hit a child

The Minsk Prosecutor’s Office sent a criminal case against a 35-year-old Minsk woman to the court: she was charged with a violation of traffic rules, which caused less serious and serious bodily harm through negligence. This was reported in the information service of the Prosecutor’s office of Minsk, writes sb.by.

According to the case materials, on the afternoon of March 12, 2026, a woman was driving a BMW car. She was driving down the aisle. Independence and before turning left to the street. Jasmineva stopped at the prohibiting signal of the traffic light. At this time, she developed general weakness, dizziness, lack of air, and abdominal pain, which could cause fainting and endanger road safety. Despite this, after turning on the resolving signal of the traffic light, the woman began to move and lost consciousness when turning to the left.

The car went to oncoming lanes, crossed them, drove outside the roadway, where it hit an 11-year-old girl. Then the car collided with the porch of the building and capsized on the right side. As a result of the accident, the child suffered less serious bodily injuries on the basis of a long-term health disorder for a period of no more than four months, as well as serious bodily injuries on the basis of indelible disfigurement of the person.

The criminal case was in the production of the Department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for Minsk. After studying the materials of the case, the prosecutor's office concluded that the charges were justified, the sufficiency of the evidence collected, a full and objective study of the circumstances of the crime, agreed with the qualification of the crime under Part 2 of Art. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. The measure of restraint chosen earlier against the accused in the form of a ban on driving vehicles was left unchanged by the deputy prosecutor of the city of Minsk.