Forehead to forehead

A serious accident occurred on Thursday at about 11:40 in the area of ​​house 13/21 on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow.

When leaving the tunnel on the outside of the Garden Ring, five cars collided.

According to the published video of the accident, the driver of a sports Audi, moving along the Garden Ring in the opposite direction, unexpectedly drove into the oncoming lane, where he collided head-on with a Volkswagen Polo, after which three more cars crashed into foreign cars.

The Polo was driven by the leading specialist of the State Duma Defense Committee Maria Artyomova, who suffered the most in an accident - rescuers had to remove her from the cabin.

She was hospitalized in serious condition.

A number of media outlets reported that she died in intensive care, but later the city authorities denied this information.

Due to an accident, traffic on the outside of the Garden Ring was paralyzed.

As one of the eyewitnesses told RT, when trying to get out of cars stuck in a traffic jam, several more minor accidents occurred in the tunnel.

The sporty Audi RS6, whose driver caused the accident, belongs to the notorious blogger Edward Beale.

It turned out that a huge number of violations were registered behind the car.

“Since January of this year, in three months, more than 400 violations of the speed limit by a car have been recorded, due to which an accident occurred on Novinsky Boulevard.

No fines were issued on the car, as this car was removed from the register in January and drove under fake license plates.

We believe that this was done deliberately, ”the Moscow Department of Transport commented on the accident.

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At the same time, the department expressed the opinion that the culprit of the accident should be arrested.

“We are preparing an appeal to the prosecutor's office with a request to initiate a criminal case against the driver.

We will hand over all the documents and video materials we have so that the culprit receives a real sentence of imprisonment, ”the Telegram channel of the Capital's Department of Transport said.

Over 560 penalties

Later, the head of the department, Maxim Liksutov, sent a letter to the Moscow prosecutor with a request to take the investigation of the accident on Novinsky Boulevard under his personal control.

The letter contained all materials related to traffic violations committed by Audi, including speeding by more than 100 km / h.

“In total, the person responsible for the accident at Novinskoye has more than 566 fines.

This year alone:


- 245 speeding by 20-40 km / h;


- 104 - at 40-60 km / h;


- 48 - at 60-80 km / h;


- 23 - at 80 km / h ".

Immediately after the accident, Edward Beale tried to blame a friend, whom he allegedly entrusted with the management of a sports car.

After that, the blogger was examined and taken to the investigative department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District for interrogation.

According to TASS, no traces of prohibited substances were found in Beale's body.

Later, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that a criminal case was initiated on the fact of an accident under Part 1 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic rules or the operation of vehicles, which, through negligence, caused serious harm to human health).

If Artyomova survives, the perpetrator of the collision faces a maximum sentence of up to two years in prison.

The Metropolitan Police in an official comment on the fact of the accident noted that the actions of the alleged perpetrator of the accident will be given an objective assessment and the decision will be made in accordance with the current legislation.

They also confirmed the information of Deptrans that the sports Audi was deregistered in January 2021 by the previous owner.

"The alleged culprit of the accident himself is not the owner of the car," the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.

The well-known lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky, deprived of his legal status after the scandalous case of an accident involving Mikhail Efremov, said that he was ready to represent the interests of the injured woman and her family.

At the same time, his opponent in the scandalous case Elman Pashayev, also deprived of his lawyer status, on Thursday evening expressed his readiness to defend Bil.

Shocking brawler from Transnistria

The 25-year-old blogger and pranker Edward Biel (currently Edward Biel) hails from Tiraspol (Transnistria), in his youth he was engaged in the local rowing sports section.

He is married and has a daughter, Emily.

He became interested in filming videos after graduating from high school; to date, more than 4.3 million people have subscribed to his blog on YouTube.

Beal is the author of numerous controversial jokes, in which he often provoked conflict situations with other people, including those that ended in assault.

Also, for the sake of filming his videos, the blogger drowned, burned and crashed several cars in an accident.

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In Beal's "asset" there is a number of videos where he demonstrates aggressive driving, violates traffic rules and shows rudeness and disrespect to other road users.

In particular, in one of the videos filmed on the Garden Ring, Beal came into conflict with the driver of the limousine, into which, moving at high speed, he threw a bottle.

In June 2019, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation asked Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev to check several video bloggers who, according to their data, pose a danger to society, including Bill.

However, nothing is known about the results of the check.