Actor Ostap Stupka sentenced to a 3-year restriction of liberty for car accident while intoxicated

The Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv has announced the verdict against actor Ostap Stupka in the case of a drunken car accident. Stupka was sentenced to a 3-year restriction of liberty with a deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for 8 years. This was reported to UNN by the spokeswoman for the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office, Nadiya Maksymets.

Maksymets said that the actor "was sentenced to a 3-year restriction of liberty with deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for 8 years."

The prosecutor's office will appeal the decision, said Maksimets.

The prosecutor asked to impose a 3-year prison sentence.

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The road accident occurred on April 4 in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.

According to the investigation, the driver of a Range Rover, driving down Fedorova Street towards the intersection with Kazymyr Malevych Street, drove into the oncoming lane and hit a Mitsubishi parked on the street. As a result of the accident, a man in the car was injured and hospitalized.

The driver of the Range Rover, born in 1967, was detained at the scene. The Drager device showed 1.62 ppm of alcohol in his blood.

The incident was preliminarily classified under Part 1 of Article 286-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of traffic safety rules while intoxicated, which caused the victim a moderate bodily injury). However, taking into account the findings of the forensic medical examination, which established that the bodily injury caused to the victim was severe, the criminal proceedings were reclassified under Part 2 of Article 286-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.