On 10 June, the Tagansky district court of Moscow sent under house arrest of the actor Michael Efremov — cause of fatal accidents in the capital. The accident occurred on June 8 at the Garden ring: drunken Mikhail Efremov behind the wheel of the Grand Cherokee SUV drove into the oncoming lane and collided with the van Lada. 57-year-old van driver Sergey Zakharov died in hospital. In court, the actor pleaded guilty, calling the incident appalling. Under arrest, Mikhail Efremov will be until August 9, he faces imprisonment up to 12 years. “B” remembered what was responsible and public officials involved in high-profile accidents over the last 20 years.Businessmen, politicians, artistic number of the most high-profile fatal accidents included a head-on collision Mercedes Vice-President of LUKOIL Anatoly Barkov with Citroen, where were the doctors Vera Sidelnikova and Olga Aleksandrina, both died. The accident occurred on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow in February 2010. Driving a Mercedes, according to the official version, was the driver of mister Barkova. Relatives of the victims did not agree with the conclusions of the investigation and tried unsuccessfully to prove that the oncoming traffic left Mercedes. Photo: RIA Novostirussia caused a wide resonance, swept the country, rallies of solidarity with families of the victims; it was also organized movement “Blue buckets” (originally opposed the flashers on all vehicles except fire, police and ambulance, then turned into a project, whose members work to protect the rights of drivers). Musician Noize MC recorded in connection with the tragedy the song “Mercedes S666”. Mr Barkov soon left the Board of the company.In December 2011, the official Mercedes Sverdlovsk Governor Alexander Misharin has already signed contracts to meet the “Volga” on the highway Ekaterinburg—Serov. The driver of “Volga” Yury Druzhinin died, Alexander Misharin and his driver Dmitry Cherkasov suffered serious injuries. The court has recognized guilty in road accident the driver of Mr. Misharin and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment conditionally. In February 2012, the Governor returned to his duties as the head of the region, but in may of the same year resigned at his own request.Photo: IA “Uralinformbyuro”In October 2014 in connection with the Amnesty was stopped criminal case about a fatal accident involving a writer Edvard Radzinsky. In July 2011, Edward Radzinsky in his Volvo drove into oncoming traffic on the Small Moscow ring is in the suburbs and crashed into a Nissan X-Trail. The accident killed 24-year-old woman. Mr. Radzinsky pleaded guilty.28 July 2019 Lexus General Director of Agroholding “Ravis”, the former Vice Governor of Chelyabinsk region Andrei Kosilov collided with a car Lada Vesta on one of the regional trails. The accident injured three ��of asagiri Lada. Andrey Kosilov pleads not guilty in an accident, it elected a measure of restraint in the form of recognizance not to leave. In April 2020 in Ulan-Ude on suspicion of the fatal hit on 17-year-old girl detained Deputy speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Buryatia Bair zhambalov. The accident occurred the evening of 5 January in the Baikal district. In the original version, a local businessman Calouste Pilosyan, returning from ice fishing on the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado (belongs to Mr. Zhambalova) at high speed knocked down crossing the road the girl and fled the scene of the accident. A few hours later he came to the local police Department, a criminal case was initiated. However, after several months, investigators found that driving was Bair Zhambalov. In March the Deputy speaker resigned from his Deputy duties, he was expelled from United Russia; the investigation continues.Law enforcement and sudeep September 2009 on the highway Petersburg—Murmansk automobile under the office of the Prosecutor of the Pryazha region of Karelia Evgenia Abramova at high speed flew into the oncoming lane and collided with VAZ-2105. One person was killed and two injured. The defendant not pleaded guilty, but after numerous examinations in April 2014, received three years probation.In June 2010, Kazan, Aircraft manufacturing district court judge Edward Soldatov, driving car in a drunken state, knocked down 23-year-old man. The case was closed due to reconciliation of the parties, the judge of the deceased parents had paid 1.5 million rubles. In July 2010 a senior assistant Prosecutor of the Chernyshevsky district of the TRANS-Baikal Maxim Skubiev, driving a car while intoxicated and without a license, hit five teenagers on the highway Chita—Khabarovsk. Three died. In October 2011 Maxim Skubiev sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay 700 thousand roubles to the families of the victims.In January 2011 in Ulyanovsk, the judge of the city court of Shchelkovo near Moscow Valery SAS drunk drove into the oncoming lane where his vehicle at a speed exceeding 100 km/h collided with VAZ-21124. Two people were killed. In June 2013, the court sentenced Valery Sasa to five years and six months in prison.In September 2011, St. Petersburg police Lieutenant Dmitry Vasukov, while performing, hit a ten-year student at a marked crosswalk. The child was left disabled. Mr. Vachkov on the court pleaded guilty. In December 2013 the court acquitted the police, thinking that he could not avoid the collision.In July 2012, in Volgograd policeman Alexander Burdenko in the state of alcoholic intoxication was responsible for the accident: he was hit by a mother with two children, seven-year-old girl died. Kirovsky district court sentenced a policeman to three years in prison and payment of 1.7 million rubles of compensation to the victims family.In August 2012 on the highway Saratov—Tambov police captain Sergei Afinogenov in a condition of alcoholic intoxication has left on an oncoming lane. In a head-on collision killed four people, including two children. In June 2016 the Prosecutor Elektrostal near Moscow Nikolay shipunova was sentenced to fifteen years probation after an accident in which a motorcyclist has suffered. In the night of 9 Aug 2015 SUV of the Prosecutor ran into a motorcycle at a railway crossing. Examination showed that the Prosecutor was in a state of severe alcoholic intoxication, from the post he was fired.In may 2018 on the highway “Kavkaz” in Karachay-Cherkessia faced cars Kia and Toyota Prado. The SUV ran a local magistrate Maxim Yakush. At a speed of about 150 km/h he drove into the oncoming lane and crashed into a Kia vehicle, the passengers 35-year-old Asker Uzdenov and 19-year-old Vladislav Gladsky died. The investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) opened a criminal case under part 5 of article 264 of the criminal code. As “Kommersant” reported the staff of the human rights project “Area law”, the case is being investigated and is under personal control of the Chairman of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin.Rodnew may 2005 was widely discussed in the media a criminal case on the fact of road accident with participation of Alexander Ivanov, the son of Sergei Ivanov, at that time Minister of defense. At the crossroads with traffic lights in the street Lobachevsky in Moscow VW Bora driven by Alexander Ivanov, was hit by a pensioner Svetlana Beridze. The daughter of the deceased and witness of the accident claimed that the car raced with a speed of at least 100 km/h In December 2009, the daughter of the Chairman of Irkutsk regional election Committee Anna Shavenkova knocked on the sidewalk two sisters — Helen and Julia Pyatkova. One of the girls died, the other was treated. Anna Shavenkova was sentenced to two and a half years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement with a punishment delay for 14 years (until reaching the age of 14 her son), and then was amnestied. Shortly after the accident, Anna’s mother Lyudmila Shavenkova has now resigned, but in 2013 returned to the election Committee as Secretary.Escaped criminal liability for deadly hitting on 16-year-old student in March 2014, Ramil Minnikhanov was the nephew of the President of the Republic Rustam Minnikhanov and the son of the chief of traffic police Rifkat Minnikhanov. The investigators concluded that the driver “had no opportunity to avoid collision”. In the Federation of Russian car owners then found it difficult to assess the conclusions of law enforcement authorities, noting that “about the accident and examinations little is known”.In September 2015, the son of the then Governor of the Lipetsk region Oleg Korolev and the Deputy regional Prosecutor of the region Roman Korolev, moving on the territory of Kursk region in a Volkswagen Touareg, knocked down 57-year-old Alla Alieva, which was on the road part. In 2017 the Roman Korolev was sentenced to three years probation. A former Deputy Prosecutor, repented and paid the million compensation to the family of the victim.In may 2016 in Podolsk near Moscow, the son ex-the Minister of sports of Boris Ivanjuzhenkov Anton has left on an oncoming lane for the BMW X6 crashed into the Skoda, flew to the bus stop and hit two people. The victims of the accident survived. The criminal case was closed in connection with reconciliation of the parties.23 April 2017 in Balashikha local resident Olga alisova knocked down six year old boy. The first examination was found in blood of the deceased child of 2.7 per Mille of alcohol. Re-examination confirmed this conclusion. Through the court, which asked the parents, they managed to refute the findings of the medical examiner. Officially it was recognized that the blood sample was taken improperly, got in the dirt that led to the process of alcoholic fermentation. Shchelkovo court recognized expert Michael kleimenova guilty of negligence, and appointed ten months of corrective works. Olga Alisovo pleaded guilty, was sentenced to three years in a penal colony and recovered from her 2.5 million rubles compensation for moral damage. In 2019 it was released. This is not the only case of alleged “drunk boy”, died under the wheels of the car. 13 July 2019 in the village of BUJ Kirov region six-year-old Ivan Suvorov left a bike with a dirt road on asphalt and was hit by a policeman the duty of Sergey Menshikov on the Nissan Qashqai. Examination showed of 0.51 ppm of ethanol in blood of the child. In November 2019 in respect of the medical examiner regional hospital Sergey Nasonov was prosecuted for negligence. He acknowledged that the examination was a mistake. The investigation is continuing.In April 2020 Sverdlovsk regional court to 12 September detained the son of Colonel Regardie Andrey Vasiliev, who is accused of a fatal accident. According to traffic police, in August 2019 Vladimir Vasiliev driving a Kia Rio at high speed flew into the Lada, which stood at the intersection on a red signal. The driver and passenger of the Lada died on the spot. It was assumed that the culprit could be drunk, but the examination twice has shown the opposite. In June 2020, Murmansk entrepreneur and a former official of the regional minobra Sergei Lily unfastened, shot down in July 2018 12-year-old cyclist Henry Shirshov, sued his parents of 120 thousand rubles for the repair of the rear view mirrors and scratch removal on your VW Tiguan. In December 2019, the court fined 3 thousand rubles. General of the Ministry of internal Affairs in resignation Alexander Pelgunova “for the transfer of the vehicle to the person without the right management.” His son Victor’hany is suspected in a drunken traffic accident in Nizhny Novgorod and is in custody. Driving a Toyota Highlander Viktor’hany crossed the oncoming lane and collided with a parked car. The latter left the pavement and hit a group of ninth-graders accompanied by two teachers and the mother of one of pupils. The mother of the student died, children with adults were hospitalized. Previously, a suspect was deprived of driving license for drunk driving.In January 2020, the son of the mayor of Cheboksary Alexey Ludikova Oleg was sentenced to three years and nine months in a General regime colony. In July 2019 Alex Ladikov, driving Audi Q7 car without a license, at high speed crashed into a metal barrier on the median strip of the highway, and then moving in the same direction UAZ. The driver Oise were seriously injured. The mayor’s son fled the scene of the accident. Before that, in may 2019, the court sentenced Oleg Ludikova to a year and four months probation for beating a young man and a punch in the face of police.Oglasavanje media and society to an accident involving “VIPs” and officials leaves them less opportunity to evade responsibility, said the Deputy of the state Duma, Chairman of the interregional public organization of motorists “Freedom of choice” Vyacheslav Lysakov. “The so-called elite often gets off from the real time and easiest way this is done in regions where widespread nepotism, matchmaking and all know each other,— explained “Kommersant” Vyacheslav Lysakov.— Policemen, judges, businessmen are trying to hush up the case, the documents are drawn up in such a way that the perpetrator is the victim or witness.” If an accident becomes resonant, that “chance to restore justice a lot more,” said Mr. Lysakov. “We have much to learn from the US: there is a public person who commits an unseemly act, and I’m not talking about fatal accidents — intoxicated, goes to public works — works as a nurse at the hospital, pick up trash, and nobody protects.”Thus Vyacheslav Lysakov believes that in terms of punitive measures for traffic violations an almost exhausted: “For example, we came very close to the most stringent punishment for drunk driving, now for the deaths in this accident people give the term for the murder of up to 12 and 15 years, only shot”. The MP intends to submit to the state Duma a draft law allowing to prosecute passengers of drunk drivers as their accomplices.Guilty of offences and crimes of officials and public entities thanks to the instant dissemination of information online is becoming increasingly difficult to evade responsibility, said the coordinator of the “Society of blue buckets” Peter Shkumatov. But the problem, in his view, complicated by the as yet insufficiently critical attitude of the Russian public relatiotva to corruption: “In the words of people intolerant to someone else’s nepotism, not his”. Peter Shkumatov considers that in many cases, victims in road accident with participation of influential individuals still rely on publicity.Maria, Litvinova, Maria Starikova
