The Shavat District Criminal Court of Khorezm province sentenced police officer Umarbek Atamuratov, finding him guilty of causing a serious traffic accident and endangering a person on February 23.

According to the case file, the accident occurred on September 27, 2025, at approximately 10:14 PM on Shavat-Urgench highway. The senior inspector of the Social Prevention Department of the Khorezm Province Police Department, driving a Chevrolet Tracker 2, struck a 29-year-old woman walking along the side of the road.

According to investigators, the driver, intoxicated, failed to provide first aid after the collision and fled the scene. He also grossly violated the Police Law.

A forensic examination revealed that the victim died in the hospital from injuries sustained in the accident.

Specifically, the deceased was diagnosed with a closed head injury, hemorrhages under and above the meninges, diffuse hemorrhages in the cerebral hemispheres, and focal hemorrhage in the ventricular wall; closed chest injury; a sternum fracture; rib fractures, hemorrhages and ruptures of tissue under the pleura of both lungs and in the area of ​​the lung roots at the sites of the rib fractures; blood accumulation in the chest cavity, a fractured ilium on the right, and fractures of the ilium, ischium, and pubis on the left; and cerebral and pulmonary edema.

Testimony

In court, Atamuratov partially pleaded guilty. He stated that that evening he had been returning from Orom restaurant, where he had been drinking alcohol with a classmate. He claimed, however, that despite this, he had been "vigilant," understood what was happening, and was in control of the situation, despite feeling unwell.

According to him, he was driving along the old Shavat-Urgench road and, where the streetlights ended, heard a crash from the right side of a car. Stopping on the shoulder, he realized he had hit someone. He stated that young men in a Gentra driving behind him noticed the incident and ran to the scene. He and the men approached the victim, who was lying in a ditch next to her husband. The woman was pulled out, and the defendant claims to have participated in this.

Atamuratov explained that he intended to follow her to the hospital with money and went home to Urgench to do so. He noted that he had frequently encountered medical institutions in the past and believed that "without money, patients might be treated worse, so he wanted to bring money to help save the victim's life."

He insisted he had not intentionally left the woman in critical condition, but had trusted the young men from Gentra, who had taken her to the hospital. He claimed he didn't have a phone, so he couldn't call his relatives and ask them to transfer money, so he went himself.

The court found these explanations unfounded and viewed them as an attempt to mislead, mitigate liability, and avoid punishment. Therefore, it criticized them and dismissed them.

The deceased's husband testified in court that the defendant struck his wife while they were walking along the side of the road with his wife and three relatives. After the incident, two young men exited the Gentra vehicle, helped the woman into the car, and took her to the hospital.

He stated that he had only seen the defendant briefly and could not say whether he was intoxicated, as the distance between the defendant's car and theirs was considerable.

He also stated that he has now partially, though not completely, forgiven Atamuratov, noting that he had provided him with financial assistance.

Court ruling

In determining the sentence, the court considered the laws, the nature and degree of public danger of the crime committed, Atamuratov's personality, and the presence and absence of mitigating circumstances.

The court considered the partial pleading guilty, remorse, the presence of two minor children, the absence of a criminal record, and the fact that the victim's legal representative had partially forgiven him as mitigating circumstances. No aggravating circumstances were established (despite the drunk driving).

The court stated that the punishment should contribute to the deterrence of further crimes by both the convicted person and others.

Judge N. Yuldasheva found him guilty of committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 266 (Violation of traffic safety rules or the operation of vehicles, resulting in the death of a person / punishable by imprisonment for up to 7 years with deprivation of a certain right) and Part 2 of Article 117 (Abandonment of a person in danger, resulting in the death of a person / punishable by correctional labor for up to 2 years or restriction of freedom from 1 year to 3 years or imprisonment for up to 3 years).

She sentenced him to three years and one month in prison. He will serve his sentence in a penal colony. He was also disqualified from driving for three years.