Mercedes driver runs over 9-year-old boy on scooter at crosswalk in Kizilyurt, Russia.
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A 9-year-old boy riding an electric scooter was struck and run over by a Mercedes-Benz at an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing in Kizilyurt, in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, on May 15, 2026. The child was taken to a hospital and later died from his injuries.
An initial account from Dagestan traffic police said the crash occurred at about 00:7:30 p.m. on Malaguseynova Street. Police identified the driver as a 35-year-old woman from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and said she was driving a Mercedes-Benz when she hit the boy as he crossed the road on a scooter.
A later statement from the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan gave a different time, placing the collision at about 5 p.m. The prosecutor's account identified the vehicle more specifically as a Mercedes-Benz GL 550 4Matic and said the child, born in 2017, was crossing the roadway on an electric scooter at an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing.
The discrepancy between the approximately 5 p.m. time cited by prosecutors and the 00:7:30 p.m. time attributed to traffic police has not been publicly reconciled in the official information reviewed for this report. Both accounts place the fatal collision in Kizilyurt on May 15 and agree that the victim was a 9-year-old boy on a scooter who died after being taken to a medical facility.
Video of the collision provides a direct record of the impact. The footage shows the boy approaching and entering the marked crossing on his scooter. A Mercedes then reaches the crossing and strikes him. The vehicle continues forward after the first impact, passing over the child before stopping farther ahead. The boy is left on the roadway behind the vehicle.
The footage establishes the collision and the vehicle's continued movement across the crossing. It does not establish the driver's state of mind, what she saw before impact, her exact speed or any other factor that would require investigative or forensic findings.
The Prosecutor's Office said investigators' preliminary version was that the Mercedes driver violated traffic rules and struck the child while he was crossing at the uncontrolled pedestrian crossing. The boy died at a medical institution from the injuries he suffered in the crash.
Authorities opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Article 264 of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers a violation of traffic rules that causes a person's death through negligence. The Kizilyurt interdistrict prosecutor's office placed the investigation under its supervision.
The official prosecutor's statement did not publicly name the driver or the child. The police account identified the driver only by age and region of residence, describing her as a 35-year-old resident of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
The criminal case was publicly confirmed by the prosecutor's office on May 17, two days after the collision. The statement did not announce an arrest, pretrial detention order, conviction or sentence.
A review of subsequent information through August 13, 2026, did not establish a publicly announced final charging decision, trial outcome or sentence in this specific case. The last verified procedural development was the opening of the criminal investigation and the prosecutor's decision to supervise it.
News story written by DarkGore.
