In the Irkutsk region, a 59-year-old Toyota driver hit a 10-year-old boy

According to the regional Interior Ministry, the accident occurred on the afternoon of September 21 in the village of Granovshchina in the Irkutsk region. A 59-year-old Toyota driver hit a 10-year-old boy at full speed. The child was hospitalized with serious injuries. Police did not specify whether the driver had been detained.

“People of Baikal” and the RusDTP portal, citing local residents, write that the Toyota was being driven by a drunken participant in the war against Ukraine. The same residents claim that he had previously been stripped of his driver’s license for drunk driving and a traffic accident.

Local residents also say that the injured boy was diagnosed with multiple fractures of the neck and skull. This information has not been confirmed in the Interior Ministry’s statement.

The prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation.

Sources

• Novaya Gazeta Europe