Kyiv region's police have confirmed that the famous Ukrainian composer and musical producer, Kostiantyn Meladze, was driving a car which knocked down and killed a 30-year-old woman on the Kyiv-Obukhiv highway on Thursday night.
“He was behind the wheel, he doesn’t deny it. He was sober,” the public
relations’ department of Kyiv region’s police branch told Interfax-Ukraine.
The police said that the criminal proceedings had been launched into the
accident.
The prosecutor’s office of Kyiv region reported a traffic accident on the
Kyiv-Obukhiv highway outside Kyiv on Thursday evening, which involved a famous
Ukrainian composer and music producer. No names were mentioned. According to the
prosecution, the Lexus car, which was moving in the direction of Kyiv, hit a
30-year-old woman not far from the Pyatykhatky bus stop. The woman died at the
scene, her identity is being established. Criminal proceedings were launched
under the second part of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (violation of traffic
rules or car operation rules), which envisages the punishment of up to eight
years of imprisonment.
