At a landfill near Moscow, a dump truck fatally hit a 61-year-old Belarusian woman. The driver was released in the courtroom

Shacman dump truck. Illustrative photo: wikimedia.org

The Podolsk City Court of the Moscow Region found guilty the driver of a dump truck who, at the end of 2024, fatally hit a 61-year-old citizen of Belarus at a construction waste processing site near Podolsk. This follows from the text of the verdict.

The woman came to Russia for work. She lived in a dormitory, worked as a sorter at a landfill, and recently tried to get a job there again — after she had traveled to Belarus for personal matters. At the time of her death, she was not yet officially employed.

According to the case materials, the driver of the Shacman dump truck, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, was turning right to unload construction waste. At that moment, the woman was walking along the right side of the vehicle — in its blind spot. The driver hit her with the right side of the vehicle, she fell, after which he ran over her with the rear wheels. The woman died on the spot from multiple fractures and ruptures of internal organs. The examination did not find alcohol or drugs in her blood.

The driver did not admit guilt. He claimed that he did not see the woman due to the blind spot, and his movement was directed by a foreman who showed him where to go. The court rejected these arguments: according to the verdict, the driver, before starting to move, did not ensure the safety of the maneuver and the absence of pedestrians, did not turn on the turn signal, did not reduce speed, and did not give an audible signal.

Initially, the deceased's representative in court was her friend and compatriot — also a citizen of Belarus. According to her testimony, the deceased's relatives refused to come to Russia to collect the body and arrange the funeral, and showed no interest in the case; they never once contacted law enforcement during that entire time. The friend herself stated that she did not want real imprisonment for the driver and was ready for reconciliation, after which she left for Belarus. To represent the interests of the deceased, the court involved a local social development body.

The court qualified the driver's actions as a violation of traffic rules, resulting in the negligent death of a person (Part 3, Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and sentenced him to one year and one month of imprisonment in a penal settlement.

Taking into account the time the driver had already spent in custody, the court considered the punishment served — he will not actually go to prison. He has three minor children to support.

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