A resident of Transbaikalia was sentenced for the death of a man in a drunken accident

A court in the Trans-Baikal Territory sentenced a resident of the village of Chernyshevsk, who got drunk behind the wheel of someone else's car, lost control and killed a man returning home with his wife. This is reported by the regional prosecutor's office.

The hit-and-run occurred on the night of October 5, 2024 on Tsentralnaya Street. It was established that a 26-year-old local resident, who was under the influence of alcohol and drugs, got behind the wheel of a Toyota Vista passenger car owned by a colleague.

At a speed of 100 km/h, he lost control, the car flew off the roadway and hit a 50-year-old man who was returning home with his wife. The motorist fled the scene. The injured man died in hospital, writes ChitaMedia news agency.

The court found the driver guilty under clauses "a, b, c" of Part 4 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of traffic rules committed by a person who is intoxicated and does not have the right to drive vehicles, which negligently caused the death of a person, associated with leaving the place of its commission") and sentenced him to imprisonment. for a period of 7.5 years to be served in a penal colony, and for the next three years, a man is also prohibited from driving.

The convict must pay 1 million rubles each in compensation to the mother and wife of the deceased. In addition, 300 thousand rubles each must be paid to them by the owner of the car that was hit. The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.

In February, a GAZ Sobol car crashed into an oncoming Niva in the Lipetsk region. The driver of the car was killed. As it turned out, at the time of the accident, the 34-year-old GAZ driver had been driving for more than 11 hours. The examination revealed alcohol and several types of drugs in his body.