Late in the evening of June 8, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, driven by the famous actor Mikhail Efremov, did not fit into the corner on Smolenskaya Square, flew into the oncoming lane and collided head-on with a small Lada van. The driver of the van, 57-year-old Sergey Zakharov, who worked as a courier in a food delivery service, suffered very much, was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where he died without recovering.

Efremov, getting out of the car, was practically not injured, but barely kept his feet. Later, an examination will show that the alcohol level in the artist’s blood corresponded to 2.1promil, which is equivalent to 1 bottle of vodka. Efremov was sent home on his own recognizance. A criminal case was opened on the fact of an accident on the grounds of corpus delicti. 2 tbsp. 264 of the Criminal Code (violation of the rules of the road and the operation of vehicles), which, after the death of the victim, was retrained to. " 4 tbsp. 264 of the Criminal Code (violation by the driver in a state of intoxication of traffic rules, resulting in the death of a person through negligence). Efremov faces up to 12 years in prison. Efremov pleaded guilty, he is ready to help the family of the deceased. However, this is not the first phenomenon of a famous artist while intoxicated and his violation of traffic rules. Since the beginning of 2020, he has been prosecuted ten times for traffic violations. More than once was a participant in scandals. But usually I didn’t sit behind the wheel, I used the services of a driver. Now the actor is at home, feeling unwell, an ambulance was called to him several times. Mikhail Efremov realized everything and is in shock.

Psychiatrist Yevgeny Bryun said: “I’ve seen Mikhail Efremov several times in different situations, and I’ve never seen him sober, just never. I think that there’s also the fault of the family, the large Efremov family, because they must sound the alarm "

Boxer Nikolai Valuev also expressed his opinion: “Everyone is equal before the law, but a public person has a moral obligation to be an example, preferably a good one. Here, everything was exactly the opposite. Mikhail Efremov regularly appeared in public drunk.

Writer, TV presenter, friend of Efremov Viktor Shenderovich said: “I believe that we, friends and acquaintances of Mikhail Efremov, who did nothing to prevent him from driving drunk, are obliged to support this family”.

He is echoed by journalist Maxim Kononenko - from trampling Efremov, the deceased will not rise, the actor’s family will not be easier, it is necessary to help the family of Zakharov.

The victim Sergey Zakharov, a resident of Ryazan, arrived in Moscow, but did not find work in his specialty (a graduate of the Ryazan Radio Engineering University), worked as a courier. He has two sons. A day before the ill-fated accident, his mother-in-law died, so the family will have two funerals. Relatives do not know how to say about the death of Sergey to his 98-year-old mother, whom Sergey Zakharov constantly helped.