In the Gomel region, the traffic police detained a drunk driver transporting children

March 12, MINSK. In the Gomel region, traffic police officers detained a drunk driver who was transporting two minor children in the cabin. Such information is posted in the TELEGRAM channel Good Roads of the Gomel Region, BelTA informs.

On the night of March 6-7, employees of the OGAI of the Zhitkovichi District Department of Internal Affairs worked out the M10 highway, the border of the Russian Federation - Gomel - Kobrin. At about 3.40 they noticed a BMW X6 car moving in the opposite direction with a clear excess of the speed limit. "The traffic police officers decided to stop the car. Turning around, they turned on the flashing beacons of red and blue, but the driver did not stop immediately, which aroused suspicion even more," the report says.

The driver turned out to be a 30-year-old man, a resident of the Petrikovsky district. He was traveling with his wife and two young children who were in child restraints. Law enforcement officers assumed that the man was intoxicated and conducted an examination using a breathalyzer. In the exhaled air, 1.51 ppm of ALCOHOL was found. "The wife, who was in the car, was also in a state of alcoholic intoxication . They admitted that they had consumed alcohol before getting into the car," the report says.

An administrative protocol was drawn up against the driver, the vehicle was delivered to a guarded parking lot.