Plot Investigation into an accident in Moscow in which children died
At the request of the prosecution, the police hardened the charges against the girl who hit three children in a foreign car at a crosswalk in Moscow, and asks the court to detain her. A petition to change the measure of restraint for the arrest of the 18-year-old student Valeria Bashkirova was received & nbsp; July 19 at Tverskoy District Court, reports TASS.
The accident happened on July 16 on Aviatorov Street. Mazda, driven by Bashkirova, who obtained a driver's license in 2020, crashed into children aged 5, 4 and 9 months at an unregulated crosswalk. They crossed the road with two adults, the youngest at the time was in a stroller. The children were hospitalized, two of them died, the 9 month old girl is now receiving medical assistance.
The accused in the criminal case was charged with breaking traffic laws, which inadvertently resulted in the deaths of two or more people. She faces up to seven years in prison. The press service of the MIA headquarters in the capital explained that the actions of the defendant were recycled in connection with the deaths of two children.
Initially, the incident was Filed under the article of moderate severity: violation of traffic rules, resulting in the death of a person through negligence. According to her, a student can be sentenced up to five years in prison. Now she is under house arrest.
In the meantime, according to RIA Novosti, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has been denied the transfer of a criminal case on the facts of the matter. a high-profile traffic accident, the victims of which were two young children. The day before, the head of the ICR, Alexandre Bastrykine, had instructed to request the transfer of the case from the police to his department.