Experts are confident that those involved in an accident on Arbat will try to slow things down. A video has appeared of twisting the AMP license plates from the Mercedes that hit the policeman.
The Mercedes that killed the inspector in the center of Moscow was driven by an FSB warrant officer. There were no passengers in the car. RBC reports this with reference to sources.
On Monday, September 25, an accident occurred in the center of Moscow in which 32-year-old senior police lieutenant Sergei Grachev died. According to the publication, an FSB warrant officer was driving a Mercedes Benz S450 official car (2012) with license plate A896MR97. A source in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow told him about this and was confirmed by another source familiar with the inspection materials. By intkbbach According to them, there were no passengers inside the car.
How, a Mercedes S-Class killed a traffic police inspector at about half past ten in the evening at 10:30 pm on Novy Arbat. Information immediately appeared that a car with special license plate “AMP 97” was driving at a speed of about 120 km/h along the median. and on recorders of passing cars.
When doctors from a passing ambulance ran up to the guard, he was already dead. After the accident, the driver immediately “hung” the license plates with a rag, and passers-by managed to take pictures. Eyewitnesses of the tragedy reported the car number - A 896 MR 97. He was taken from the scene of the incident by a car with license plate A848MR97.
Both cars belong to a military unit related to the Federal Security Service, a source in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow told the agency. Employees of the central office, heads of departments and their deputies can travel in vehicles of this class. Operational vehicles include cars of a lower class: Ford Focus, Ford Transit, Hyundai.
A video has already appeared on the Internet of twisting the AMP license plates from the Mercedes that hit the policeman. In the recording, a man removes the front license plates from a car with AMR license plates.
The very fact that the license plates of the person responsible for the accident were first removed suggests that everyone involved in this case will try not to wash their dirty linen in public, lawyer Sergei Kucherenko told Reedus.
“Most likely, the police tried to depersonalize the car not on their own initiative, but because there is an unspoken rule in their structure: in the event of an accident, information should not be leaked to the public, so as not to disturb public opinion. So, whoever was driving the Mercedes at the time of the collision with the traffic police inspector, the official himself or his driver, is not so important: the inspectors acted according to some internal instructions,” the lawyer suggests.
According to this logic, depersonalization of the car is also necessary so that all subsequent procedural actions can be carried out behind closed doors. Moreover, screwing up license plates, even if it is done by the driver himself, is not punishable in any way - provided, of course, that after this the car remains stationary.
“If employees of law enforcement agencies or higher government bodies are involved in an incident, then usually such cases are investigated by the Investigative Committee, and they are heard in military courts. And since in this accident both the culprit and the victim are employees of law enforcement agencies, it can almost certainly be assumed that the parties will try to come to an agreement in their own way, so as not to humiliate the honor of each other’s uniform,” the lawyer concluded.
In which 32-year-old senior police lieutenant Sergei Grachev died. An FSB warrant officer was driving a Mercedes Benz S450 (2012 model) official car with license plate A896MR97, a source in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow told RBC and was confirmed by another source familiar with the inspection materials. According to them, there were no passengers inside the car.
“A car with a flashing light on was moving along Novy Arbat Street along a dedicated lane towards the region. Before reaching the intersection with Novinsky Boulevard, at 22:08 the driver hit a traffic police inspector who was in the same lane,” a source in the traffic police told RBC.
The Mercedes driver removed the license plates from the car after the accident. A car with license plate A848MR97 picked him up from the scene of the incident. These details were reported to RBC by eyewitnesses who arrived at the scene after the incident. Both cars belong to a military unit related to the Federal Security Service, a source in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow told RBC.
“Cars of this class can be used by employees of the central office, heads of departments and their deputies,” noted a source in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.
Operational vehicles include cars of a lower class: Ford Focus, Ford Transit, Hyundai.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has begun an investigation into this fact; the incident is being investigated by investigators from the military prosecutor's office, whose jurisdiction includes incidents involving intelligence officers, both sources confirmed to RBC. The results of the investigation will be transferred to the FSB's own security service. RBC sent relevant requests to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB.
“The video from external surveillance cameras shows how traffic police inspector Sergei Grachev stops traffic along one of the lanes, crosses it and stops at the edge of the dedicated line,” the interlocutor said.
The inspector was monitoring the flow moving towards the center, while the official car hit him in the back, noted a source in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.
“Based on the results of the examination, it will be possible to say exactly what caused the car to collide with the inspector. The driver might not have noticed the employee, blinded by the headlights of oncoming cars,” the source added.
During the investigation, it will be established whether the driver had a business need to be in this area: investigators will check whether the driver has a waybill and a special ticket.
A special permit, known as a “non-verification certificate”, is issued to intelligence officers for operational cover of the vehicle. This document gives its holder the right to avoid checking the persons in the cabin, as well as the cargo being transported. The special license is issued for operational vehicles and vehicles of high-ranking officials. All regulations on special coupons belong to the category of information “for official use”.
The movement of official vehicles with special signals is regulated by the rules of the road (traffic rules), there are no secret instructions that make an exception for cars of law enforcement agencies, the chairman of the bar association “Starinsky, Korchago and Partners” Evgeniy Korchago told RBC.
“Special vehicles can drive in the oncoming lane and cross a double line, but only if it has a flashing light and a special sound signal,” said the lawyer.
If there was no signal, then the driver had to follow the general traffic rules. A traffic police officer does not have the right to stop a car with a flashing light, the source added. A source in the traffic police told RBC that investigators are checking whether a special sound signal was turned on on the car.
The traffic rules state that drivers of vehicles with a blue flashing light on, while performing an urgent official task, may deviate from the requirements of traffic lights and traffic controllers. But they can take advantage of priority only by making sure that they are given way.
Regarding the situation with the road accident, many questions arise for the second special battalion of the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, which serves the special highway passing through New Arbat, Chairman of the Moscow Trade Union of Police Officers Mikhail Pashkin told RBC. The PPS charter prohibits an employee from being alone at night; the absence of a patrol car also raises questions, explains RBC’s interlocutor.
“It seems to me that the deceased was sent across the road to provide special transportation, which may have hit him. Any special vehicle can travel along the dedicated lane: police, firefighters, ambulance, FSB, and FSO. “I don’t understand why the leaders of the second special battalion sent him there,” the trade union leader continued. “And where is the FSO officer, with whom they were supposed to provide special passage, and how they were supposed to block the road.”
However, Pashkin emphasized, if the Mercedes drove without a sound signal, then “the driver of the special transport is 100% to blame.” The inspector could cross the street, heading towards the stationary traffic police post, which is located on the opposite side of Novy Arbat, a source in the department noted.
The Kremlin reported that it had paid attention to the accident, but noted that this was not a matter for the presidential administration. The investigation of an accident involving special vehicles belongs to a complex category of cases that are usually “slow down,” lawyer Alexander Molokhov, who specializes in criminal cases related to road accidents, comments on the situation for RBC.
Beware of the flashing lights
Road accidents involving cars of security forces or high-ranking officials.
On September 15, 2017, the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, and three other servicemen were injured in a road accident. The accident occurred on the Kola highway in the Murmansk region. A minibus in which there were military personnel, the driver of which ultimately died.
On July 13, 2017, in Kabardino-Balkaria, as a result of an incident involving an FSB official vehicle, a six-year-old child riding a skateboard died.
On September 8, 2016, in the center of Moscow, a car with AMP license plates, in which presidential aide Vladislav Surkov was, collided with a taxi. Surkov's car was moving with the flashing light turned on. The taxi driver was found to be the culprit of the accident, and six administrative protocols were drawn up against him.
On September 2, 2016, the driver of the Presidential Administration Department died in an accident. A BMW car, which was assigned to the Federation Council, collided with a Mercedes on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in the capital.
Based on materials: rbc.ru, photo "Gazeta.Ru", video: rbc.ru
The accident occurred around 10:30 p.m. in the area of building 30/2, where Novy Arbat intersects with the Garden Ring. The Gazeta.Ru correspondent, who was the first to arrive at the scene of the tragedy, reported, citing eyewitnesses, that an executive Mercedes with license plates A896MR97 was moving at a speed of about 120 km/h along the highway dividing strip towards the region and hit an inspector. At the same time, there were no traffic jams on Novy Arbat at that time - the driver of the elite foreign car, apparently, was in a hurry and took advantage of his road privileges. According to unconfirmed reports, a flashing light was also installed on the sedan.
“Immediately after the collision, one of the police officers shouted into a megaphone: “Stop, bitch. Stop!” an eyewitness to the accident told a Gazeta.Ru correspondent.
The Mercedes stopped about 50 meters from the downed inspector, whose baton and cap flew off to the side. The police officer died on the spot - doctors from a passing ambulance tried to help him, but it was too late.
Traffic police crews began to arrive at the scene of the accident. According to the calculations of the Gazeta.Ru correspondent, less than an hour after the accident there were six traffic police cars and two other police cars. Also, an unknown man in plain clothes arrived at the scene of the accident; judging by the behavior of the police officers, he is a high-ranking representative of the security forces.
According to data from open sources, the number A896MP97 is assigned to , but who exactly uses it is unknown - the department has not yet had time to comment on the situation. The metropolitan police did not provide any official information on the accident.
In this case, most likely, it was not the “silovik” himself who drove the foreign car, but his driver. Almost immediately after the accident, another car with government license plates A848MR97 drove up to the scene of the accident. His driver spoke briefly with traffic police officers and then quickly drove away.
In front of the Gazeta.Ru correspondent, an unknown man, possibly a Mercedes driver, cheated the license plates - the police did not prevent this in any way. Before this, the rooms were covered with cloth. Moreover, police officers at the scene of an accident push videographers away from the scene of the collision.
“This is the first time I’ve seen something like this, that they don’t let me film it,” a cameraman from the state channel Rossiya was perplexed at the scene of the accident.
It is noteworthy that Russian officials and security forces have not had the right to purchase Mercedes cars for many years. They are not produced in Russia and, according to the law, cannot be the subject of government procurement. Despite this, numbers in the AMP series can be found on many Mercedes of the latest models.
A year ago, it already happened on Novy Arbat. According to Gazeta.Ru, a BMW 7 Series with license plates A020МР97RUS was involved in an accident.
assigned to the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, who at that moment was in the cabin in the rear passenger seat.
Immediately after the accident, the license plates from the wrecked foreign car were also removed. The collision occurred when a Galaxy was in the way of a BMW driving towards the Kremlin, which, flagrantly violating traffic rules, tried to turn around through the allocated lane. The car, judging by the special numbers, coloring and the inscriptions “Yandex.Taxi”, is a licensed Moscow taxi. The press service of the Russian Presidential Administration then disowned the BMW involved in the accident, telling Gazeta.Ru that there was no such car on the department’s balance sheet.
Just a week before there was an accident on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow .
He died after a collision with a Mercedes, which flew into the oncoming lane at high speed, where it collided head-on with a BMW with “AMP” series numbers.
Judging by the video footage published later, the driver of a Mercedes CLS, moving towards the center, lost control at great speed, crossed a wide dividing strip and drove into oncoming traffic. There he immediately crashed into a BMW 7-Series with the license plates of the government series “AMP”, which was traveling in the far left lane. The main blow fell on the front left side of the BMW, which belongs to the transport plant and is the administrative office of the President of the Russian Federation. Despite the abundance of safety systems, the damage was so significant that the driver died at the scene of the accident. The alleged culprit survived and was hospitalized with a hip fracture.
At the beginning of this week, while on duty in an accident on Novy Arbat, Moscow traffic police officer Sergei Grachev died. The department's leadership promised to help the family of the deceased employee. .
Sergei Grachev was hit by a Mercedes car, and as a result of his injuries, a law enforcement officer died on the spot. As a source in law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti, the car has a departmental series of numbers “ AMP”.
The leadership of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the capital reported that the family of the deceased will be provided with all necessary assistance. The 32-year-old police lieutenant is survived by his wife and two children.
/ Wednesday, September 27, 2017 /Topics: traffic police Police
The leadership of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate will help the family of a traffic police officer who died in an accident on Novy Arbat, the website of the capital's police headquarters reported on Tuesday.
An accident occurred the night before on Novy Arbat; a traffic police officer who was hit by a Mercedes died. . . . . .
“The leadership and personnel of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow express deep condolences to the family and friends of Sergei Grachev. His family will be provided with all the necessary assistance.”, - the message says.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the tragically deceased traffic police inspector was police lieutenant of the 2nd Special Regiment of the Traffic Police of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate Sergei Grachev. Among the state awards, the lieutenant has a medal “For Distinction in Service”, III degree. He is survived by his wife and two minor children.
Several sources familiar with the situation told RIA Novosti that Mercedes is on the balance sheet of the Federal Security Service. The agency does not yet have an official comment from law enforcement agencies.
The metropolitan police said they would provide assistance to the family of a traffic police officer who died on Novy Arbat.
“On September 25, at about 10 p.m., a Moscow traffic police officer, police lieutenant, traffic police inspector Sergei Grachev, tragically died while on duty.”, - says the message of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow.
The police noted that the deceased traffic police officer was survived by a wife and two minor children. . . . . . His family will be provided with all the necessary assistance,” the police press service assured.
A fatal accident occurred the night before on Novy Arbat. The driver of a luxury Mercedes with government AMP license plates ran into a traffic cop standing in the allocated lane. A police officer died as a result of an accident.
The media reported that Mercedes is on the balance sheet of the Federal Security Service.
It was he who allegedly was driving a Mercedes with the AMP series number.
Representatives of the military prosecutor's office will investigate the circumstances of the accident in the center of Moscow, which resulted in the death of 32-year-old traffic police officer Sergei Grachev.
As eyewitnesses told RBC, the Mercedes driver removed the license plates from the car after the accident, and the man himself was taken from the scene of the incident by a car also with an AMP series license plate. It is noted that both cars belong to a military unit, which is related to the Federal Security Service.
Meanwhile, according to new information, the policeman was not on duty on the dividing strip, but was crossing the road outside the pedestrian crossing zone. The traffic police officer was caught in the headlights of oncoming cars, so the driver of the special vehicle (according to some sources, he is registered in the FSB garage) did not notice him and did not even slow down. This version was put forward by experts in the field of road accidents.
Seryozha was the only breadwinner,” cries grief-stricken Ekaterina, the widow of the deceased. - How can I raise Dima and Slava now? I’ve been on maternity leave for many years; before that I was a manager at an insurance company. Payments for the youngest child will stop in a month. What should I live on now? The child is not given a place in the kindergarten, I cannot go to work.
- How long has Sergei been working in the police?
From 18 years old. I only changed divisions. In 2012, they tried to improve their living conditions through the Ministry of Internal Affairs and got on the waiting list. But things are still there. Sergei is registered in a hostel on Rodnikovaya Street. And we lived with my parents in an apartment on 50th Anniversary of October Street. In total, the two-room apartment has an area of 44.7 square meters. meters, eight people huddled together - in addition to our family, there was also my divorced sister and her child.
- How did you find out about the trouble from the news?
No. At night, three police officers—Seryozha’s leaders—came to our apartment. They correctly reported the tragedy. One of them, the immediate superior, is with us now, supporting us. Serezha’s mother arrived in the morning; she was crying all the time. It’s hardest for her - Seryozha was her only son.
Sergei Grachev came to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2003 - he began his career as a policeman in the 1st police regiment of the UVO at the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate for the protection of hydraulic structures.
In 2015, he transferred to the traffic police - to the position of inspector of the 2nd special regiment of the traffic police on the special highway of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. This police regiment is considered elite, as it serves Rublevskoye Highway. By the way, it is not difficult to get to work here, as there is a high turnover - many inspectors do not like to be on duty on the median.
We spoke with a witness to the accident. A Muscovite named Vage was one of the first to call the city’s emergency services. Although after a minute or two a passing ambulance stopped near the wounded traffic cop.
I heard a bang and looked back. To my horror, I saw a man literally flying over the road. Having fallen on the asphalt, the policeman did not even move, I realized that he had died. Medics 03 examined and immediately covered the body with a tarpaulin.
- What was the driver doing at this time?
He stood aside and watched. Didn't go near the body.
- Were there passengers in the Mercedes?
No. Although at first it seemed to us that the Mercedes was not traveling alone. There seemed to be a Porsche ahead, but it quickly moved ahead.
- Why didn’t the driver of the special vehicle notice the traffic police officer on the dividing strip?
Usually, the special police regiment's members stand on a traffic island near the sidewalk. And this policeman, apparently, was crossing the road outside the pedestrian crossing, although there was an underground “pedestrian” right underneath him,” suggests lawyer Stanislav Lagoiko, a former employee of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, who once investigated high-profile road accidents. - The policeman stopped on the dividing strip, allowing the flow of traffic to pass. He stood closer to the left edge of the strip. And he fell into a stream of oncoming headlights, that is, he stood directly in the beam of light. In this case, the reflectors on the DPE agent’s clothing do not work.
The driver of the Mercedes might not even have seen the pedestrian - that’s why the car didn’t slow down at all. The driver applied the brakes after the collision. Most likely, the special vehicle did not have a sound alarm turned on - otherwise the traffic police officer would probably have somehow reacted to the approach of the car.
