In Irkutsk, a 17 year old teen in a stolen Niva crashed into a pole while trying to flee police. After the crash he tried to run, but was detained, and the car was returned to its owner.
In Irkutsk, a teenager crashed into a pole in a stolen SUV. As reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Irkutsk Region, the accident occurred at about half past midnight on October 2.At the intersection of Baumana and 18th Sovetskaya streets, police officers patrolling the streets saw a Niva, whose driver, upon noticing the police officers, began swerving on the road and then crashed into a pole.
The SUV driver tried to flee after the incident, but was detained by law enforcement officers. It turned out that a 17-year-old teenager was behind the wheel, already having a criminal record for theft. In addition, the young man was driving someone else's car, which he had stolen from the yard of a residential building shortly before. The car was returned to its rightful owner; most likely, the teenage car thief will have to pay for its repair.
He will also have to answer before the law for the theft.