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Official's car runs over traffic cop in Moscow

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A traffic cop was seriously injured when he was hit by the car of a regional official in downtown Moscow, it emerged on Wednesday.

A traffic cop was seriously injured when he was hit by the car of a regional official in downtown Moscow, it emerged on Wednesday.

"The driver of an official from the Murmansk regional government pulled into the emergency lane and rammed into a traffic policeman on Novy Arbat Street at 11.30 a.m. [14.30 GMT] on Tuesday," a police source told RIA Novosti.

"The policeman suffered several injuries and was hospitalized," he said.

An investigation is underway.

A number of high-profile road accidents involving VIP vehicles has caused concern in recent years among the residents of the Russian capital.

Two women were killed last February when their car collided head-on with a chauffeured Mercedes belonging to Anatoly Barkov, the vice-president of the Russian oil giant, LUKoil.

Barkov was not charged for the accident despite evidence that his car pulled into the oncoming lane.

His car, like hundreds of others in Moscow, had a flashing blue light, or migalka, used by businessmen and state officials to bypass traffic rules.

Public anger over the use of migalki has spawned an ingenious protest movement, with drivers attaching blue buckets to their cars in mimicry of the official lights. A series of blue bucket demonstrations in Moscow have been blocked by police.

 

MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti)

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