Sobering up will come

At the wrong end, lawmakers took up road safety

What Boris Nikolaevich Izotov is ready to be horrified of - professor, doctor of medical sciences, head of the department of analytical and forensic toxicology of the First Moscow Medical Institute, academician of New York and Boston universities.

The congress in St. Petersburg, dedicated to saving our lives on the roads, ended, all high-ranking officials, returning from there, sat down in their offices to compose new laws to tighten penalties for drunk driving.

The media also cannot calm down after the tragedy on Minskaya Street. The media is fine, but our authorities! The Duma began to seethe, Putin gathered a special meeting on this accident, but not anything, but even the country's Security Council itself!

Yes, gentlemen, the country is in danger. Seven people is, of course, seven people. Yes, and orphanages. Yes, and those who went with a victory in the competition: joyful, inspired. And here is their electrician! ..

True, an electrician is not an easy one - a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, maybe there he got used to impunity? And the suspension of the sentence for 14 years for the daughter of the chairman of the regional electoral committee, Shavenkova, for the murder of one woman and the disability of another - does this fact not speak of the danger in the country? And when the Mercedes of FSB General Barkov killed two honored women in the center of the capital, did no one see any danger to the country either? And the fact that the video recordings from as many as five cameras on Leninsky Prospekt (!) have disappeared - is there no danger to the country in this either?

And how many cops, prosecutors and their assistants, investigators, deputies and their assistants, judges and their assistants, prosecutors and their assistants - how many of them, drunk, kill people while driving, no one counted? But in vain.

But it would be necessary, Vladimir Vladimirovich, to somehow count all these victims and convene the Security Council on this matter. Because it will immediately become clear to everyone: the country is in danger. In danger of lawlessness and permissiveness of the security forces. And officials.

Last Friday morning I spent in close communication with Natalya Metlina, the host of the new program on NTV Metla, - he gave an interview as an expert. He asked: "What is the topic?" “Drunk driving,” Natasha replied.

Well, it's a sin not to speak out here. Especially when there is something to say.

Shooting. Question: "Do you think it is necessary to toughen the penalties for drunk driving?" “Yes, I think so. But first, it is imperative (!) to separate the drunk from the sober, who were confused by our former president, canceling "zero three per mille." Probably some fool told our lawyer president that this was permission to drink, and not a requirement of the Vienna Convention to compensate for the error of measuring instruments. Indeed, according to the conclusion of both our narcologists and specialists from the International Health Organization, intoxication begins at 0.5 ppm.

Now imagine, Natasha, that I, you or someone were registered drunk for hundredths of a ppm, then a second time for the same hundredths, and on the third they are deprived of their rights for life - how is that? And if the same thing happens to tens of thousands of drivers?

Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Boris Nikolaevich Izotov, head of the department of analytical and forensic toxicology at the Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute, academician of New York and Boston universities, says that then it will be terrible.

Another thing is if blood is taken during serious accidents with victims, there the state of intoxication is fixed from 0.3 ppm, and the error is excluded. And if just on the road or even in the first-aid post, where the breathalyzers are the same?

Yes, it will be horror and genocide of hundreds of thousands of SOBER drivers. But in fact - all fifty-two million who have a driver's license in Russia.
I said all this to the camera of Natalia Metlina. And I sat down on Sunday night to watch her program "Broom" - how convincingly did I do it?

Imagine my surprise when - no, it's not that I didn't see myself there at all. I have enough fame, and once again I do not run to put my face under the TV camera at the first invitation.

Natasha withstood the style of NTV for five plus: scare and shock. She showed several terrible accidents from the archives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations or the traffic police, went on a night raid to identify drunk drivers, took a couple of them into the trash, added more horror from YouTube and created the impression that a solid drunkard drives on our roads. And the last phrase of Metlina was strong, balanced, something like this:

- If you, legislators, got out of your offices and at least once drove along the roads of the country like this, you would understand how far you are from it (or its problems, I don’t remember. - Yu.G. ) .

That's how things are, dear sober, non-drinking motorists.