Police will insist on custody of Infiniti driver, precautionary measure in court will be chosen on October 28 — Kharkiv Police
A 16-year-old driver of an Infiniti car after a fatal accident on Gagarin Avenue is in temporary detention. At the time of the accident, he was sober, did not have a driver's license because he is a minor.
This was announced at a briefing on October 27 by the head of the Investigative Department of the Police Alexander Umnikov.
According to him, the driver, a student of one of the Kharkiv technical schools, was taken to the emergency hospital with a diagnosis of “traumatic brain injury, head abrasion”, he did not need hospitalization.
“To say that he is somehow aggressive there, we check... Upon my arrival, behaved adequately. He was injured, not very much. I did not see terrible aggression,” Oleksandr Umnikov said.
According to Alexander Umnikov, the 16-year-old Infiniti driver was not intoxicated. There is a corresponding act according to the results of its inspection and verification on the Drager device.
“The Infiniti was moving at the red stop signal, the Chevrolet was moving at the green traffic light signal. After committing an accident, the Infiniti driver was detained under Art. 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. He is placed in a temporary detention facility,” Oleksandr Umnikov said.
According to him, the Infiniti car was registered to the driver's mother, he got behind the wheel illegally — without rights. Both parents of the driver live in Kharkiv.
In September, a 16-year-old teenager was stopped and fined for lack of a driver's license, said the head of the Patrol Police Department Alyona Strizhak.
“18.09 this citizen was stopped by the patrol police crew. And for violation of traffic rules he was brought to administrative responsibility. Two minutes were drawn up, which were sent to the court. Further consideration of these protocols will be carried out by the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv, and then you can follow its consideration on the open website “Judicial Power”, - she said.
In a criminal case of hooliganism, the driver received a suspended sentence.
“The driver, indeed, was brought to criminal responsibility. There is a verdict of the Chervonozavodsky Court of Kharkiv, he was sentenced to two years in prison with a conditional sentence of one year. He was convicted for intentionally causing physical injuries of moderate severity,” said the head of the Police Investigative Department.
The driver of the Infiniti is being prepared for suspicion of an accident.
Recall, the car accident occurred on October 26, 2021 at about 20:40 in the area of the intersection of Gagarin and Odessa streets. A 16-year-old driver of “Infiniti” tried to cross the intersection at a red traffic light signal and collided with a Chevrolet car. As a result of the accident, the 58-year-old driver of the Chevrolet died on the spot, three passengers of the Infiniti - two 19-year-old men and a 16-year-old girl with serious injuries - were taken to hospital.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
