NOVOSIBIRSK/S. PETERSBURG, 19 Jun. Novosibirsk police officer, while on vacation in St. Petersburg, knocked down an 8-year-old boy on an electric scooter, according to the regional prosecutor's office and the GUMVD; according to a law enforcement source, the scooter was drunk.
“It was established that on June 17, 2023, on Proletarskaya Street in Kolpino, the driver of an electric scooter ran over an 8-year-old boy at speed. The child needed medical help,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The prosecutor's office of the Kolpinsky district of St. Petersburg is engaged in clarifying the circumstances; The department also monitors the results of a procedural check on the fact of an accident.
According to the GUMVD for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, it was found that the scooter was driven by an officer on duty of the temporary detention center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Cherepanovsky District of the Novosibirsk Region, who is on his next vacation in St. Petersburg.
«An internal audit has been scheduled, according to the results of which, if the employee's guilt is confirmed, he will be dismissed on negative grounds,» the GUMVD specified.
According to a source in law enforcement agencies of the region, the driver of the scooter was sent for a medical examination. «He was found to have 0.292 mg/l of alcohol in his blood, or about 0.6 ppm,» the agency's interlocutor added.
In turn, the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Novosibirsk Region told reporters that an internal check was scheduled on the fact of the incident in St. employee in the service of the internal affairs bodies». -1875702190.html» data-title=»In Cheboksary, a man on an electric scooter knocked down a ten-year-old girl»>