Wednesday, August 18, 2004

A warning from the NKR Minister of Social Security would tell you that public drunkenness and driving over the speed limit is a deadly combination.

And why would the Minister of Social Security tell you this? Well it seems that the fatal car accident that I came across this evening on the main boulevard that cuts up the center of Stepanagert, 50 meters from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, involved a pedestrian who was possibly intoxicated and the Minister of Social Security’s white Niva (license number 068LL90).

From the looks of the car, which the hood and windshield were smashed in, it appeared that the car was probably going over the 50 kilometer speed limit.

The people who were at the scene told me that the Niva hit the pedestrian, who hit the hood and windshield, then somehow ended up under the car, which dragged it up the street before it could come to a stop.

The area was blocked off and the police investigators were taking measurements of where the pedestrian’s slippers were, where the car was stopped and where the blood stained the asphalt.

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