Date

16/07/2007  

First

Alexander  

Surname

ZHADAYEV  

Sex/Age

M  

Incident

accident  

Motive

J  

Place

street  

Job

cameraman  

Medium

TV  

Federal District Plus

VOLGA  

Street, Town, Region

Penza  

Freelance

no  

Local/National

local, 11 kanal  

Other Ties

 

Cause of Death

hit by car  

Legal Qualification

264.2 (Violation of the rules for traffic safety)  

Impunity

trial, conviction, 23 November 2007  

Alexander Zhadayev, a journalist with TV channel 11, was killed in Penza on 16 July 2007, on Monday night. The head of traffic police for the Penza Region, Vladimir Yegorov, said the fatality occurred when Zhadayev was filming the results of a car accident on Pobeda Prospect where a Gazel truck had collided with Volga and Zhiguli automobiles.

A VAZ automobile, travelling at high speed, failed to brake and hit the stationary ambulance, attending the victims of the crash. As a result, the ambulance was thrown onto the people standing behind, one of whom was Zhadayev. The cameraman was killed outright and the other casualty, a witness to the crash, was taken to hospital with concussion and a suspected fractured skull.

The driver of the VAZ, it was learned later, was a traffic policeman on his day off. He was at the wheel of his own car and witnesses said he was not sober. During the accident he received insignificant injuries and bruises.