The key facts

  • Traffic police inspectors in Kuzbass spotted a Chery Tiggo with an unbuckled drunk driver
  • The man fled by wading across the Mungat river, but returned to the car and was detained
  • Six protocols and a fine of 69 thousand rubles

The chase ended with wading across a river

In Kuzbass, a drunk driver of a foreign-made car tried to escape traffic police officers in an unusual way — by wading across a river. This was reported by the Telegram channel «360.ru».

Chronology of the incident

According to the channel, inspectors noticed a Chery Tiggo with an unbuckled driver. When ordered to stop, the man merely pressed the gas. He turned onto a dirt road, abandoned the car, waded across the Mungat river and hid in the forest. Later, the offender returned to his car, where he was detained.

Punishment

The driver was issued six protocols and a fine of 69 thousand rubles.

Other road incidents

The report also mentions other incidents: in Nizhny Novgorod, drivers got into a fight with serious injuries near gas stations — bystanders filmed it on video, while other motorists did not intervene in the conflict; the cause of the fight and the condition of the participants are not reported. In Saint Petersburg, a naked man walked along the roadway. Earlier, a video appeared of a mass brawl at a gas station in Krasnodar.