In Surkhandarya region, a DPS officers' chase ended in a traffic accident

The chase ended in a collision

Road patrol in the Otyinsoy district of Surkhandarya region ended in a traffic accident. According to Kun.uz, citing its own source, on the morning of October 18, in the Yangi qurilish mahalla, road patrol officers in a service vehicle pursued a Chevrolet Captiva driving along the mahalla's internal road. The chase was captured on surveillance cameras. The driver of the Captiva, trying to escape pursuit, increased his speed, lost control, and collided with a Chevrolet Gentra traveling toward him on its own route.

The victims and the reaction

The brother of the Gentra driver told the outlet that there were five people in the car, and all of them sustained injuries of varying severity. His brother has a broken arm and other injuries; he is still in the hospital. According to him, no one has reported on the condition of the victims, the car sustained serious damage, and many witnesses saw the DPS officers' chase of the Captiva. The Road Traffic Safety Service has not yet commented on the incident.

What the rules require of patrol officers

The outlet reminds readers that the procedure for road patrol officers when interacting with road users is approved by a Cabinet of Ministers resolution of December 1, 2018. Under paragraph 48 of this regulation, during a pursuit or observation, to ensure their own safety and the safety of road users, a DPS officer must keep special light and sound signals on at all times, choose driving speed based on the specific conditions, and inform their unit or the internal affairs duty officer of where they are heading, where they are, and in what direction they are moving. Whether the chase in Otyinsoy met these requirements has not yet been officially assessed: the agency has not commented, and the circumstances are known mainly from the words of a victim's relative and the outlet's source.