The Blagoveshchensky District Court sentenced driver Evgeniy Bakaryukin, who caused an accident in which five pedestrians died and four others were injured, to 14 years in prison, the joint press service of the courts of the Amur region reported on Friday, September 20.
He is also banned from driving a car for three years after serving the main sentence. In addition, he must compensate the victims for material and moral damages in the amount of 15 million rubles.
It is worth noting that relatives of the victims and the victims themselves were present in the courtroom, more than 10 journalists and television cameramen from various media outlets worked there, the Telegram channel of the press service reports.
On September 18, it was reported that the district court postponed the hearing in the case of the driver accused of committing a traffic accident in which five pedestrians were killed and four were injured in Blagoveshchensk. These measures were due to the fact that law enforcement officers had questions for the accused.
On July 14, a terrible accident occurred in Blagoveshchensk: a drunk driver drove at full speed into a crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk. All that is known about the accident can be found in the material of “Evening Moscow”.
