The Court and Three Million. What Awaits the Driver of the Accident, Alexander Buynov?

In addition, she accuses Buynov of not keeping his word and not helping her with the payment for treatment. **What was the accident?** The traffic accident occurred in February 2025 in Aprelevka, Naro-Fominsk district of the Moscow region. Buynov, driving his own Lexus, hit a woman at a pedestrian crossing, who sustained serious injuries. According to the police, the singer tried to avoid the collision but was unable to do so. According to media reports, the victim suffered multiple bruises and ligament tears. Her lawyer, Dmitry Solovyov, stated that she underwent treatment for more than five months, during which Buynov's representatives initially promised to cover her medical expenses but then stopped responding, as reported by StarHit. For Buynov, this incident ended without consequences at that time — he was not held accountable due to the statute of limitations. The singer's concert director, Sergey Pudovkin, mentioned that the promise to pay one million rubles was indeed made, but the victim herself refused to accept the money, and her representatives did not attend any of the meetings. Pudovkin referred to the offer as a "gesture of goodwill" and "human attitude," but added that later the woman was offered more for participating in television shows related to the scandalous situation. He also notes that immediately after the incident, Buynov did not leave the scene of the accident and participated in the investigation with the police. Apparently, the truth will have to be established by the court, as it has been in other similar cases. **Which Russian celebrities have been involved in serious traffic accidents?** In 2001, the famous showman and host of "Field of Miracles," Leonid Yakubovich, was involved in a fatal traffic accident — a drunk pedestrian slipped and fell under his car while getting off a bus. Yakubovich recounted that he had a hard time coping with what happened, even though he was found not guilty, and he struggled to forgive himself for a long time. Writer and television host Edward Radzinsky was the cause of a fatal traffic accident in the summer of 2011 in the Istra district of the Moscow region — he drove his jeep into oncoming traffic, leading to a head-on collision with another car, resulting in the passenger of that car dying at the scene. The investigation lasted about three years, Radzinsky faced up to five years in prison, but was ultimately pardoned under an amnesty on the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Russia. The criminal case was closed. The case involving Mikhail Efremov is perhaps the most well-known and tragic. The actor caused a fatal accident in the summer of 2020 in central Moscow — he drove into oncoming traffic on the Garden Ring and crashed into a Lada; the driver of the Lada, Sergey Zakharov, sustained serious injuries and died in the hospital. Efremov's guilt was aggravated by alcohol intoxication. The trial lasted several months, and the actor never admitted his guilt, although he did pay compensation to the family of the deceased. He was sentenced to 7.5 years in a penal colony, served about 5 years, and was released on parole; he is currently working at Nikita Mikhalkov's theater and plans to continue acting in films. In 2022, actress Anna Bolshova was involved in a traffic accident — she fatally ran over a woman on the road in the Kaluga region. Bolshova did not flee the scene of the accident and called the police; it is known that the actress was sober and was not speeding. Later, the case against Bolshova was dismissed due to lack of evidence of a crime — investigators began to develop another version: the intoxicated deceased might have been pushed under the wheels of the actress's car. The husband of the deceased was named as a suspect.