The Tyumen prosecutor’s office reported a rare event: the court sentenced the drunken “pilot” of the electric scooter to a real prison term. A 27-year-old local resident has been found guilty under the first part of Article 264(1) of the Criminal Code. Earlier, in December 2020, he was stripped of his “rights” for a year and seven months for refusing a medical examination for drunken driving. And exactly one year after this event, already in December 2021, this citizen, drunk after the New Year’s party, decided to go to the pharmacy. A young man piercing snowdrifts on an electric scooter caught the attention of police officers. They stopped him and performed a “purge” on the area of drunkenness.
At the same time, it turned out that the electric transport operated by the citizen is a mechanical vehicle and is equated with mopeds, which require a driver category “M” to drive. In general, it involved a court charge of drink-driving by a person who had previously been deprived of “rights”. He was sentenced to one year in prison with a two-year suspended sentence. At the same time, he was deprived of the VU for another two years and six months. One can only marvel at the mildness of the sentence. After all, a drunk driver on a personal mobility device running at high speed on the sidewalk poses a much greater danger to pedestrians than even a drunk driver of a car.
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The Tyumen prosecutor’s office reported a rare event: the court sentenced the drunken “pilot” of the electric scooter to a real prison term. A 27-year-old local resident has been found guilty under the first part of Article 264(1) of the Criminal Code. Earlier, in December 2020, he was stripped of his “rights” for a year and seven months for refusing a medical examination for drunken driving. And exactly one year after this event, already in December 2021, this citizen, drunk after the New Year’s party, decided to go to the pharmacy. A young man piercing snowdrifts on an electric scooter caught the attention of police officers. They stopped him and performed a “purge” on the area of drunkenness.
At the same time, it turned out that the electric transport operated by the citizen is a mechanical vehicle and is equated with mopeds, which require a driver category “M” to drive. In general, it involved a court charge of drink-driving by a person who had previously been deprived of “rights”. He was sentenced to one year in prison with a two-year suspended sentence. At the same time, he was deprived of the VU for another two years and six months. One can only marvel at the mildness of the sentence. After all, a drunk driver on a personal mobility device running at high speed on the sidewalk poses a much greater danger to pedestrians than even a drunk driver of a car.
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