The culprit in the accident in St. Petersburg, in which 25-year-old Vasily Kupriyanov died, has not yet been brought to justice. The tragedy occurred back in 2015, but after a long investigation, the court is now considering the case. The mother of the deceased fears that the accused of committing an accident can avoid punishment.

Deadly Accident

On the afternoon of July 14, 2015, Vasily Kupriyanov stood on the sidewalk near the intersection of Novoizmaylovsky Prospect and Basseynaya Street and waited for a traffic light to allow him to cross the road.

The driver of the red Hyundai Elena Chernova, turned from the Novoizmaylovskoye highway to the left, despite the prohibition sign. At that time, the Renault Duster was moving in the opposite lane of the same highway. Alexander Vasin, who was behind the wheel, tried to avoid a collision, but, hitting the front of the Hyundai, his car flew out onto the sidewalk. There he shot down Kupriyanov, who was standing at the curb and flew into the newsstand.

  • Video of an accident in the Moscow district of St. Petersburg (July 14, 2015)

Eyewitnesses rushed to get a young man from under the wreckage, but he died from his injuries before the ambulance arrived. The driver of Renault and the seller of a newsstand were hospitalized.

Elena Chernova, who left Hyundai, was surprised when she was informed that she had violated the rules of the road, eyewitnesses said. According to them, the woman declared right in front of the camera that she turned there every day.

Vasily's father came to the place of the accident, but Elena did not approach him, said the friends of the deceased.

After the accident, a criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Art. 264 of the Criminal Code, providing for liability for violation of traffic rules, which led to a fatal accident with one dead. It was Chernov who became the defendant, and Vasin is passing as a witness.

According to the mother of the deceased Alexandra Kupriyanova, a month after the accident, Elena Chernova phoned her and asked for forgiveness.

“I just answered:“ God will forgive ”, because how can I forgive her for her son’s death. She didn’t contact me any more and didn’t offer any help, ”says Alexandra in an interview with RT.

Court

At the end of August 2016, the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg approved the indictment in a criminal case against Elena Chernova.

“According to the investigation, Chernova, driving a car, violated the requirements of the traffic sign 4.1.4 of the RF traffic regulations allowing traffic only right and right, made a left turn at an adjustable intersection at the intersection of Basseina Street and Novoizmaylovsky Prospekt, and left into oncoming traffic, as a result of which it collided with an oncoming car. The oncoming car as a result of the collision drove onto the sidewalk, where it hit a pedestrian who died on the spot, ”the press service of the prosecutor’s office said.

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The case was submitted to the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg on August 31 of the same year. However, even before the consideration of the case on the merits, the judge saw inaccuracies in the materials and brought him back to the investigation stage.

In May 2017, the case again went to court. The preliminary hearings were repeatedly postponed and the first was scheduled only for December 6th. Subsequently, meetings were also often postponed due to the non-appearance of witnesses, the defendant, who, according to the mother of the deceased, is under a written undertaking not to leave the place, for other reasons.

At the beginning of June 2018 a forensic examination was scheduled for the case.

Alexandra Kupriyanova is experiencing that the process is clearly delayed and those responsible for the death of her son can go unpunished.

“Each meeting began with the petitions of the lawyer Chernova, that the investigation blocked Vasin, and in fact it was him who was to blame for the accident, and that the examinations were done with violations. The court concluded that another examination was needed, and appointed it in October 2018. The fourth judge leads the case, and everything goes to the fact that 6 years will pass from the moment of the accident, and everything - there will be no verdict, the case will simply be closed, ”Kupriyanov believes.

The woman does not miss a single meeting, which was already about 30. According to her, Chernova assured in court that she was innocent.

“She claims that she didn’t hit my son, and that’s not to blame. The only thing she recognizes is that she turned in the wrong place. Now her lawyer is trying to prove by all means that Vasin is to blame for everything, ”says Alexandra.

As the sister of the deceased Anastasia Kashirskaya told RT, the seller of the newsstand, who suffered as a result of an accident, demanded 50,000 rubles from the Draft for compensation.

“She then answered him to collect all the checks and go to court. So she is not going to pay anything, ”says Anastasia.

RT tried to contact attorney Chernova, but she was unavailable for comment.

"It looks like a dragging on the case"

Moscow lawyer Marat Amanliev, in an interview with RT, suggested that the verdict would nevertheless be rendered before the expiration of the statute of limitations.

“What is happening is similar to the delaying of the case, so that it can be stopped by the statute of limitations, but most likely it will not last another two years and the court will give a verdict. All six years to pull the process in this case is impossible. When all the necessary examinations are carried out, the judge will make a decision, ”the lawyer believes.

According to Amanliev, even if the examination shows that the driver of the Renault exceeded the speed, Alexander Vasin is still unlikely to be transferred from the status of a witness to the accused. According to a Moscow lawyer, speeding would not lead to the death of a pedestrian if the driver of Hyundai did not turn under the prohibition sign.