KRASNODAR, December 19 The court detained for two months an employee of the State Traffic Inspectorate in Kuban, who got behind the wheel drunk and caused an accident in which a person died , reported the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory.
Earlier, the Kuban prosecutor's office stated that an accident occurred in Primorsko-Akhtarsk on Sunday. An employee of the State Traffic Inspectorate driving a Volkswagen Passat was driving at excessive speed and hit the rear of a VAZ 2107 car, which was turning left. As a result of the accident, a 21-year-old driver of a domestic car died. Investigators opened a criminal case against a 35-year-old OVDPS inspector of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Primorsko-Akhtarsky district, suspected of violating traffic rules while intoxicated, which resulted in the death of a 21-year-old young man.
““The court granted the petition, placing the defendant in custody for a period of two months,” the report says.
According to the Investigation Department, the employee drove a foreign car while not on duty.