{"id":492478,"date":"2025-10-22T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=492478"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:12:32","slug":"traffic-police-fired-shots-to-stop-driver-who-turned-out-to-be-a-drunk-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/traffic-police-fired-shots-to-stop-driver-who-turned-out-to-be-a-drunk-teenager","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Police Fired Shots to Stop Driver, Who Turned Out to Be a Drunk Teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Traffic police officers from the Salihorsk District Department of Internal Affairs used firearms to stop a driver who attempted to flee from them. The driver turned out to be a drunk teenager, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, near the village of Izdrasheva, officers signaled a Ford driver to pull over. He ignored the order, prompting a chase that, according to video footage, ended in a cornfield.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe offender did not respond to repeated lawful demands from the police to stop. He was swerving on the roadway and driving onto the shoulder, creating a real threat to the life and safety of other road users. Firearms were used to stop the vehicle,\u201d<\/em> the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was eventually detained. He was identified as a 16-year-old local resident showing clear signs of intoxication. A breath test showed more than one promille of alcohol in his system. He also did not have a driver\u2019s license. Two passengers aged 15 and 16 were in the car.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSix administrative reports were filed. For drunk driving, the teenager faces a fine of 200 base units (8,400 rubles). The car, which he had bought without re-registration, has been impounded in a secured parking lot,\u201d<\/em> the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_62172\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUI72z125TI?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=ru&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic police officers from the Salihorsk District Department of Internal Affairs used firearms to stop a driver who attempted to flee from them. The driver turned out to be a drunk teenager, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. According to the ministry, near the village of Izdrasheva, officers signaled a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68f8a0067eea9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Traffic Police Fired Shots to Stop Driver, Who Turned Out to Be a Drunk Teenager"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}