Four people were injured in an accident because of a drunk: the driver was taken into custody

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April 13, Brest. The prosecutor of the Kobrin district authorized the detention of a 46-year-old driver accused of an accident with four victims. This information is published on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office, BelTA informs.

The accident happened on January 2 in Kobrin. A drunken man got behind the wheel of a Toyota Land Cruiser. He had 2.1 ppm of ALCOHOL in his blood. On Internatsionalnaya Street, the driver drove into the oncoming lane, where he crashed into a Peugeot 306 driven by a 23-year-old resident of the Kobrin district.

The drivers were not injured in the accident. In Peugeot at that moment there were four passengers who received injuries of varying severity.

"In 2019-2021, the accused was brought to administrative responsibility seven times for violating traffic rules. The prosecutor gave a sanction to take the violator into custody, taking into account the circumstances of the crime, the severity of its consequences and the personality of the man," the prosecutor's office added.

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