In the Khabarovsk Territory, a driver who moved a pedestrian was first tried as a killer

In the Khabarovsk Territory, a verdict was sentenced to a man who brutally killed a pensioner, moving her in his car. For the first time, the collision is qualified as a deliberate murder.

The Komsomolsk-on-Amur court sentenced 27-year-old Vasily Sergienko to 8 years in a maximum security colony for the murder of an elderly woman. The motive for the crime was the desire of a young man at all costs to escape from the scene of an accident, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the investigative department at the prosecutor's office of the Khabarovsk Territory Nikolai Tigor.

The tragedy occurred on October 2, 2007 on one of the central streets of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. According to eyewitnesses, the Toyota Carina car moved at high speed towards Volodarsky Square, when a red traffic light caught fire at the intersection. As a result, the driver lost control and rammed the Jeep Toyota Land Cruiser standing at the pedestrian crossing.

After the collision, the sedan stopped, but then his driver pressed the gas and crashed into a crowd of pedestrians.

According to investigators, the young man who was driving Toyota Carina realized that after the collision it was unlikely that any of them would survive, but did not stop.

Wanting to escape from the place of traffic accident, he "calmly continued his journey and did not leave the people at that moment at the transition, not a single chance of salvation, says Dmitry Lomakin, investigator for particularly important cases of the Khabarovsk Territory.

The car shot down a 58-year-old woman who fell on the asphalt right under the wheels of the sedan. The driver handed it back and, taking the acceleration, again moved the victim in his car. In serious condition, an elderly resident of Komsomolsk-on-Amur was taken to the hospital, where she soon died.

Already in the evening of the same day, the woman’s culprit was arrested. They turned out to be Sergienko, who controlled the car of his father in a state of intoxication. He did not have a driver’s license. In court, they agreed with the prosecution that the culprit of the collision "committed this crime with special cynicism."

Sergienko himself did not admit his guilt in the murder and insisted that "a banal accident occurred."