The driver was drunk

26 October 2011

The whole family was driving in a Lada passenger car: a husband, his wife, one year old daughter and grandmother. An Opel driving at high speed collided with the Lada car. The Lada car was torn into pieces. The whole family died. The driver of the German car sustained only broken ribs. The driver was drunk and inside the car salon there was an unfinished bottle of vodka.

On October 26 the results of the medical tests became known: Yuri Scherbakov driving Opel Omega was drunk at the moment of the motor vehicle accident. Drunk driving resulted in the tragedy.

The motor vehicle accident took place in the morning on October 20 in Oryol region in the vicinity of the Alyshanskiye Vyselki settlement. Opel Omega was speeding along the highway. The driving was positively reckless. From time to time the driver crossed the middle line making risky take-overs. The next maneuver became the last one for the driver and for the five people driving in the other car it became fatal. The Opel car entered the oncoming traffic lane and had a head-on collision with Lada car. The two cars stood still after collision at a distance of several dozens meters.

VAZ-2111 was literally torn into pieces. There was a young family driving inside the Lada. There was no chance to survive this collision; the more so that only the driver was fastened by the safety belt, the child was carried without a special restraining seat. A 25 year old Alexander Golovkov, his 23 year old wife Maria Syusyukina, their little daughter under one year old and 61 year old grand-mother died on the spot.

A 24 year old Yuri Scherbakov was driving Opel; he was neither the owner of the car not he had the driving license. The young man got by having broken ribs; his 23 year old passenger was admitted to the hospital in critical conditions where he died the next day without regaining consciousness. There was a half finished bottle of vodka and some snacks found at the back seat of the foreign make car.

Criminal procedures were initiated. The driver guilty in accident claiming five lives will be subtended by the court. The Criminal Code Article for this crime provides for a 9 year imprisonment.

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