Plot Investigation of the case of an accident in Moscow, in which children were killed
Valeria Bashkirova, who knocked down three children at a pedestrian crossing in Moscow, two of whom were killed, will take part in a court hearing on an arrest complaint via video link. This is reported by TASS, referring to the press service of the Moscow City Court.
The tragedy occurred on the afternoon of July 16 on Aviatorov Street. Bashkirova, driving a Mazda car, hit three children aged nine months, three and five years, who were walking along an unregulated pedestrian crossing together with two adults. The children were hospitalized.
A five-year-old boy died a few hours later, a three-year-old child died a day later. The nine-month-old child has a concussion and a closed craniocerebral injury.
Bashkirova was charged under Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Violation of traffic rules by a person driving a car, which caused the death of two or more persons by negligence”. At first, she was placed under house arrest, but after an appeal from the prosecutor’s office, she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. The defense appealed this decision.
According to representatives of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow, who visited Bashkirova in the pre-trial detention center, she fully admitted her guilt and repented.
Earlier, the mother of the accused told about the experiences of her family about the incident.