{"id":1419133,"date":"2026-07-18T19:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-kyiv-a-drunk-driver-fatally-hit-a-17-year-old-cyclist\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:13:38","slug":"in-kyiv-a-drunk-driver-fatally-hit-a-17-year-old-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-kyiv-a-drunk-driver-fatally-hit-a-17-year-old-cyclist\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kyiv, a drunk driver fatally hit a 17-year-old cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A 17-year-old cyclist died in a road accident in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. According to preliminary data, the driver of the BMW was intoxicated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UA.KyivPolice\/posts\/pfbid02H2k76ikNmQn8GxY8TEhpcNphNjycHYXEo3FShYaU4shCMGGibWyBsqZGv6WuxJy4l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> the Kyiv Police.<\/p>\n<p> The accident occurred on July 18 at around 3:30 p.m. on Boryspil Highway. Investigators from the Metropolitan Police Headquarters&#8217; traffic accident investigation unit and patrol police officers arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary information, the 27-year-old driver of a BMW car collided with two cyclists who were traveling on the side of the road in the opposite direction. After that, the car moved into the second row of the road and collided with a KIA car.<\/p>\n<p> The 17-year-old cyclist died at the scene from his injuries. His 44-year-old father was hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p> According to law enforcement, the driver of the BMW was intoxicated. The Dr\u00e4ger device showed 0.32 ppm.<\/p>\n<p> Investigators are currently resolving the legal qualification of the incident and the driver&#8217;s suspicions.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zbyv-viyskovoho-tikav-vid-politsii-i-potrapyv-u-dtp-detali-nichnoi-pohoni-v-kyievi\/\">in Kyiv during curfew, patrol officers detained a driver<\/a> who ignored the request to stop, hit a serviceman at a checkpoint, and, while fleeing from law enforcement officers, damaged several official vehicles.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old cyclist died in a road accident in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. According to preliminary data, the driver of the BMW was intoxicated. This is reported by the Kyiv Police. The accident occurred on July 18 at around 3:30 p.m. on Boryspil Highway. Investigators from the Metropolitan Police Headquarters&#8217; traffic accident investigation unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1419117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1419133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}