LITHUANIA: Number of road accidents in with participation of Belarusian growing each year

7 June 2012 —
The number of accidents involving Belarusians in Lithuania is growing every year. For example, there were 58 accidents by the fault of Belarusians in 2007, while in 2008 - 72, in 2009 - 81, in 2010 - 130 and in 2011 - 155. "It was when our green card was active and our insurance companies paid for an accident committed by Belarusians in Lithuania," informed the Belarusian Transport Insurance Bureau.

According to experts of the Bureau, the increase in accidents is associated with an increase in traffic exchange between the countries. About 2 thousand accidents are committed by the fault of the Belarusians abroad per year, told the bureau, reports TUT.by.

"People are more likely to go. And the more one travels, the higher chances to get into an accident are. The number of Belarusians, traveling abroad, has risen up not only with regard to Lithuania but the European Union, too," they said.

As Telegraf previously reported, July 27, 2011, Ferrari 458 Italia with Belarusian numbers, standing on the bike path in Vilnius, was almost taken to the protected parking lots for the violators' cars. The arrived patrol wanted to take an expensive car in the guarded parking lot, but the owner of the car came soon. He was fined $20.

August 6, 2011, Belarusian Embassy Advisor Jaroslav Dihtievsky in a car with diplomatic plates rammed two standing cars. The The drunken diplomat was injured, while no people were in the other cars.

At night, May 26, in Vilnius, a drunken citizen of Belarus, born in 1990, 30, was trying to make a break in his the BMW 7. Belarusian didn't obey to the police and refused to stop. When they managed to catch up the intruder, he closed his car. As soon as the policeman came up, he started moving and, thus, hit the leg of the officer.

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LITHUANIA: Number of road accidents in with participation of Belarusian growing each year
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