The car used in the hit-and-run was taken to the impound lot. The driver, a 30-year-old local resident, faces a sentence of restraint of liberty for up to three years with deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for up to three years.
The accident occurred on April 12 at around 21:30 in the village of Stenyatin, Chervonohrad district. An unknown driver, driving an unidentified car, hit a 13-year-old girl, a local resident, who was walking along the roadside with her friend, and fled the scene. As a result of the accident, the girl was injured and taken to the hospital.
Following the measures taken, having studied the video surveillance footage of the “Safe Lviv Region” system, the criminal police operatives together with investigators and officers of the Patrol Police Response Sector of the Chervonohrad District Police Department found that the girl had been hit by a 30-year-old local resident driving a Renault Duster. The police established his whereabouts, and the car used in the hit-and-run was taken to the impound lot.
Investigators of the territorial police unit opened a criminal proceeding over the incident under Part 1 of Article 286 (Violation of traffic safety rules) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum penalty provided for by the sanction of the article is restraint of liberty for up to three years, with deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for up to three years.
The police are establishing the circumstances of the incident.
Lviv regional police communication department