A foreign driver with almost 2 ppm of alcohol was detained in Baranavichy

January 25, Brest. A drunk foreign driver was detained in Baranovichi, BELTA reports citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Employees of the Baranovichi department of the Security Department witnessed the accident. The car skidded and spun, after which the car stopped, and then continued to move outside the roadway and ended up in a snowdrift. The police stopped to provide assistance. it turned out that the driver was not injured, but he had obvious signsALCOHOL intoxication .

“For further investigation, he was handed over to the State Traffic Inspectorate. A medical examination confirmed the suspicions: almost 2 ppm of alcohol,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. Within a year, a 38-year-old foreigner had already been brought to administrative responsibility for drunk driving. Then he was deprived of his driver's license and expelled from Belarus.

Now, criminal cases have been opened against the man for violating the ban on entry into the country and driving while intoxicated again within a year. The car, which belongs to a friend of the defendant, is subject to confiscation. The car was placed in an impound lot, and the offender was placed in a temporary detention facility.