Ukrainian ambassador crashed two vehicles while driving intoxicated, refuses test.
| quote: | The Ukrainian ambassador to Korea crashed into two vehicles while allegedly driving intoxicated in May, injuring one of the two Korean drivers involved, multiple sources told The Korea Times.
Ukrainian Amb.
Volodymyr Belashov
Police officers rushed to the scene to perform a field sobriety test, but the ambassador locked himself in his car for one-and-a-half hours
and refused to take the test, citing diplomatic immunity.
According to police, Ambassador Volodymyr Belashov, 58, crashed into a luxury sedan somewhere around a large shopping mall in Myeongdong, central Seoul, at 9:25 p.m., May 12. But he kept driving and then ran into another vehicle, a taxi, about five minutes later near Jangchung Gymnasium.
The taxi driver had to be hospitalized for two weeks after the accident, police said.
``The diplomat's insurance covered all costs needed for medical bills and repairs to the victims' cars,'' Kim said.
Ambassador Belashov spent nearly three decades representing Ukraine at the United Nations (UN) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) before being posted to in Korea in October last year.
Another senior diplomat belonging to the Ukrainian Embassy in Seoul was caught for drunk driving on the same night in Itaewon, police confirmed, but he also cited diplomatic immunity in refusing a sobriety test.
The diplomat also locked himself in his car, demanding he be released, police said, raising speculation the two diplomats were on their way back from a drinking party that night.
The ambassador was not immediately available for comment.
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