In the village of Yaroshevka, Cherkasy region, a drunk Moskvich driver knocked over a child and then tried to hang himself.
The minor is now in the hospital. The perpetrator of the accident also got to the medical institution – after finding him in a noose, she managed to save his spouse from death.
The girl was brought to the Shpolyanskiy regional hospital conscious with bruises in the occipital region of the head, left leg, right shoulder and closed craniocerebral trauma.
– She is now in a satisfactory condition. We decide whether to write her out for outpatient treatment, – says traumatologist Vasily Umanets.
The driver of Moskvich, after a suicide attempt, was hospitalized in critical condition in the Katerinopolsk multidisciplinary hospital.
– The patient periodically lost consciousness and had convulsions. Thanks to his wife, who got her bearings on time, everything ended fine, – says neurologist Alexander Anikin.
As explained by the deputy head of the Zvenigorod regional police department Sergei Zakharchenko, is neither the culprit of the accident, nor the parents the victim did not contact the police .
The doctor on duty told the police that the child was brought to the hospital with injuries typical of an accident. A few hours later, doctors received information about a man who wanted to commit suicide.
– This man was the driver, – says Sergei Zakharchenko.
The parents of the injured child are reluctant to talk about the incident. They say that they have no complaints about the driver .
– The daughter said that she was walking along the side of the road and was hit. The speed was not very high. It was a slippery road then. It's good that everything worked out. What happened to the driver, I don't really know. His wife will compensate us for everything and everything will be fine. The main thing is that the child is healthy , says Father Vitaly.
The culprit of the accident explained to the police that he wanted to avoid responsibility by suicide.
Now he has already been discharged from the hospital … The issue of holding him accountable for driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident is being resolved.
