A video has been circulating on social media appearing to show a black Chevrolet Malibu narrowly avoiding hitting eight pedestrians as it sped through a crosswalk in Samarkand.
The incident was captured by a surveillance camera in the area. Footage shows other vehicles stopped to let pedestrians cross, while the pedestrians were nearly across the marked crosswalk when the black Malibu drove through without stopping. No one was injured.
According to the Samarkand City Police Department, the incident occurred at around 10:20 p.m. on September 8 on Mirzo Ulugbek Street. Traffic safety officers identified the vehicle and its driver following an investigation.
Explaining what happened, the driver said he had been in a hurry and that his brakes had failed, causing him to swerve from the first lane into the third.
The driver has been cited under Part One of Article 128-10 of the Administrative Liability Code (Road hooliganism). He is currently undergoing questioning, and the case file is set to be forwarded to the Samarkand City Court.
Under this article, those found guilty can be stripped of their driving privileges for one to two years and fined 25 times the base calculation unit, or 11 million soums.
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