Story By: Amelia Guran, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
Video Credit: CEN/@47news.ru
This is the shocking moment a fully equipped ambulance simply drives around the scene of a horrific accident leaving a woman – a nurse, no less – to die.
CCTV footage shot by a car coming the other way captured the moment at 8am on 23rd September when a Volkswagen Multiven minivan crashed into a Lada at the intersection of Vostochnaya Street and Karl Marx in the town of Kinigisepp, which is in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast region.
The minivan was being driven by 65-year-old, who was not named for legal reasons, while the car was being driven by a 31-year-old who was also not named. Both of the drivers received minor injuries, and there were also three passengers in the car.
Two men, one aged 35 and one aged 28, were also lightly injured, but the 28-year-old woman who was in the car was badly hurt – and died a short while later after being transported to Kingisepp Hospital. She was later named as Natalya Kononova, a nurse.
Shockingly, while that smoke from the tragedy was still hanging in the air, an ambulance appears to be one of the first vehicles to turn up at the scene, but simply skirts around the debris, crunching it under its wheels before disappearing off down the road.
Police told Central European News (CEN) that they were now investigating and that the driver of the ambulance and its crew could be prosecuted for committing the crime under Article 125 of the Criminal Code of “leaving somebody in danger” and that they could be jailed.
According to Alexander Afanasyev, the head of the Kingisepp ambulance station, the footage is being studied and an investigation is being carried out.
He said it was understood that the driver had been travelling to the petrol station that was next to the scene of the crash in order to refuel, and that he did not have any medical personnel on board.
However, police said that regardless of whether there was a medical team on board, the ambulance driver had a duty to stop to provide assistance. Therefore he could still face prosecution and be jailed for up to a year if convicted.
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