January 3, Gomel. In Zhitkovichi, the driver of a passenger car was distracted from driving and knocked down two pedestrians, BelTA was told in the department for agitation and propaganda of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Gomel regional executive committee.
On New Year's Eve, an accident occurred in Zhitkovichi. On January 1, at about 03.45, a driver in a Renault car was driving along the street. Coniferous. According to preliminary information, the 24-year-old motorist was distracted from driving and drove into the oncoming lane, where he knocked down two pedestrians who were walking in the middle of the roadway. One of them, a 33-year-old man, was injured and hospitalized. As specified in the UGAI, previously, he was drunk and was not marked with flickers.During the New Year holidays, traffic police officers served in an enhanced version, suppressing gross violations of traffic rules. Over the past weekend, 22 drunk drivers and 59 lawless people were detained. The regional traffic police said that over 1.38 thousand traffic violations were stopped during these days. 44 drivers violated the speed limit, 35 did not give priority to pedestrians, 36 ran a red light and 57 violated the rules for transporting children. Also, traffic police officers revealed 336 traffic violations by pedestrians. At the same time, 75 people were seized from the roadway in a state of intoxication, and more than 160 did not identify themselves with retroreflective elements at night.
A resonant accident occurred on January 1 in Gomel. A 44-year-old driver in a Hyundai Solaris car was driving along the street. Proletarskaya in the direction of the street. Frunze. At an unregulated intersection, he did not give way and collided with a BMW driven by a 20-year-old driver. The driver and two passengers of the Hyundai were injured. In UGAI preliminary inform about the alcoholic condition of the motorist.
Another accident happened on the evening of January 2 in the Rechitsa district. A 35-year-old lawless man, according to preliminary information - drunk, was driving an Audi A4 at 93 km of the M10 highway "Russian border - Gomel - Kobrin" and crashed into a passing Mazda Demio car driven by a 21-year-old female driver. The driver of the Audi A4 and a 47-year-old female passenger of the Mazda were injured. They were hospitalized.
State traffic inspectors call on all road users to be responsible for compliance with traffic rules.