A fatal car accident, a dead pedestrian, attempts to portray the victim as responsible, and a criminal case that ultimately ended after the statute of limitations expired. Following the accident, former Zaporizhzhia Regional Council deputy and lawyer Yaroslav Hryshyn published his own version of events, insisted that the victim had been intoxicated, and disclosed medical data obtained through a deputy’s inquiry. The circumstances of the case and Hryshyn’s own actions raised serious questions, and the proceedings were closed on non-exonerating grounds.
Now, references to this story are beginning to disappear from the internet.
That is why we are republishing the material to remind readers how the fatal accident unfolded, how the victim was portrayed as responsible, and how the case involving Yaroslav Hryshyn came to an end.
Some events irreversibly divide life into “before” and “after.” In Zaporizhzhia, local regional council deputy and lawyer Yaroslav Hryshyn has long earned a dubious reputation due to his regular outrageous behavior, which prompted suspicions that he was using prohibited substances and led to a public proposal on Facebook that he take the relevant test.
This is reported by Maksym Drozdenko on “Site.ua”.
Yaroslav Hryshyn threw a tantrum, which, as you understand, was seen by all users of Zaporizhzhia Facebook and beyond, and refused to take the test.
This is the prequel.
So, Zaporizhzhia Regional Council deputy Yaroslav Hryshyn hits a person with his car. Fatally. He publishes a post about it on Facebook:
According to his version, he was sober and driving at a speed of 50 km/h from Berdiansk to Zaporizhzhia when a drunk man threw himself under his wheels.
And he publishes a photograph of the car.
In reality, the car looks like this (frankly speaking, this is what cars look like after colliding with a dump truck, not a person):
Yes, without brackets the text reads more cleanly:
At the same time, the completely innocent Hryshyn compensates all the relatives for damages and provides them with his lawyer friends. Why do they need lawyers if Hryshyn is innocent? At the same time, he refers to compensation for damages by the insurance company, which pays it only if he is at fault.
One can, of course, write that he took the alcohol test the next day — and that is indeed true. But he took the test only four hours later, and that amount of time is more than enough for alcohol to be eliminated from the body, especially with intensive treatment.
Here is the translation preserving the tone and meaning:
At the same time, there were no braking marks at all — meaning that either the deceased stepped directly under the wheels, or Hryshyn had no intention of braking.
The natural position of the defense became claims that the deceased was naked and drunk. A strange position: the law still does not allow people to run over drunk and naked people, but this was precisely what they emphasized.
Hryshyn’s wife stated that he was right to run him over.
The problem arose when the ambulance doctors told journalists that the victim was clothed and showed no signs of alcohol intoxication.
After that, Hryshyn lashed out at the journalists and published a response from the regional hospital stating that alcohol had been found in the deceased’s blood.
Once again.
A regional council deputy writes a request to the chief physician of the regional hospital.
In it, he asks for medical confidentiality to be breached.
Which is exactly what the chief physician does.
Here is the translation, but I would not leave the phrase that alcohol is “always present” in the blood as a fact — this is an incorrect statement. I am preserving the author’s point without this error:
After which he publishes it on Facebook.
At the same time, the mere presence of alcohol in the blood does not mean that a person was dead drunk: the level may correspond, for example, to a small amount of alcohol consumed.
In other words, this amounts to direct pressure on the investigation, which is already in no particular hurry to investigate this case.
After that, the Prosecutor General’s Office suddenly takes over the case.
The media recall Yaroslav Hryshyn’s previous refusal to take a drug test and suggest that he take it again. Let me remind you that hair can be used to establish drug use over the previous months. At the same time, the expert examination states that Yaroslav Hryshyn was not drunk, while there is not a word about drugs.
