On March 29, a court in the Novosibirsk Region reviewed the criminal case of a former deputy of the district council, who, according to investigators, ran into a 6-year-old boy in his car and fled the scene of an accident without calling doctors and the traffic police. The accused was assigned 10 months of corrective labor with the deduction of 15% of earnings to the state. In December last year, the court dismissed the ex-deputy’s criminal case due to the reconciliation of the parties, but the prosecutor’s office managed to cancel this decision and retrial.
The court re-examined the criminal case of a former Novosibirsk deputy who knocked down a child in a car. This was reported by the prosecutor’s office of the region. As stated in the case, on October 30, in the city of Tatarsk, Novosibirsk Region, Toyota RAV4 driver Sergey Mamontov turned into the courtyard of an apartment building, where he ran into a six-year-old boy who fell under the bumper of a foreign car.
After the incident, the driver left the scene of the accident without calling the doctors and the traffic police. On the same day, the child, who received bruises and abrasions, was hospitalized in a local clinic. On November 1, he was transported by air ambulance helicopter to the hospital of the regional center.
The video, the footage of which shows how the Toyota driver looks at the boy writhing in pain, and then gets into the car and leaves, was replicated by many media and Telegram channels.
The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) opened a criminal case against the deputy under Art. 125 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (leaving in danger), the head of the department Alexander Bastrykin put the course of the investigation under the control of the central apparatus of the TFR. In addition, two administrative protocols were drawn up against Sergei Mamontov: under Part 2 of Art. 12.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (leaving the scene of an accident by the driver), he was sentenced to 11 days of administrative arrest, under Part 2 of Art. 12.24 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic rules, which caused moderate harm to the health of the victim) was deprived of a driver’s license for a year and a half.
At the court hearing in the case of an administrative offense, Sergei Mamontov explained that at the time of the accident he was moving at a speed of 15–18 km/h on a road that he was familiar with: he has been driving this route since 2009. According to the violator, he did not notice the child, perhaps due to the fact that he was distracted by the car to which he gave way, or bypassing the well. Sergey Mamontov drew attention to the fact that it was getting dark outside, and the boy was dressed in dark clothes.
After the incident, the driver said, he asked a passer-by to call the child a doctor, and he himself became ill, and he went to the garage, where he took the medicine. After 30-40 minutes, he allegedly returned to the scene of the accident.
Sergei Mamontov was expelled from the United Russia party. “The decision was made immediately, there could not have been another after such an act,” said the head of the regional executive committee of the United Russia, Yulia Shvets. Sergei Mamontov handed over the mandate of the deputy of the Tatar District Council himself. Even before the transfer of the criminal case to the court, the ex-deputy paid the boy’s mother 1 million rubles. compensation, took over the costs of treatment and rehabilitation of the child.
In December 2022, the world court of the 1st judicial district of the Tatarsky district dismissed the criminal case of Sergei Mamontov with the wording “in connection with the reconciliation of the parties.” The prosecutor’s office of the Novosibirsk region appealed against the court decision, considering it unfair.
“When considering the possibility of dismissing the case against Mamontov in connection with the reconciliation of the parties, it is necessary to proceed not only from the fact that he is accused of committing a crime of minor gravity, we are not convicted, he made amends for the harm, but also that the main object of the crime of which he is accused Mamontov, are the life and health of a minor victim, deprived of the ability to take measures for self-preservation due to his helplessness, ”the supervisory agency said in a submission. As a result, the higher court overturned the controversial decision and sent the case to another magistrate’s court.
The entire trial took place in two sessions. On Wednesday morning, the former MP delivered his final speech. “Dear court, I ask you, when sentencing me, to take into account my sincere repentance, confession of guilt, as well as my chronic diseases, the retirement age of 68 years, the length of service, which is 44 years, and also the fact that I voluntarily paid off moral and material damage. With our efforts, in order to alleviate the boy’s suffering, he was sent to the regional hospital for further treatment,” Sergey Mamontov told the judge.
According to the information of the ICR department, the accused was assigned 10 months of corrective labor with the deduction of 15% of earnings to the state. Whether the defense will appeal the verdict is still unknown.