GIRL, 16, KILLED WHEN DIPLOMAT CRASHES VEHICLE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A teen-ager died when a speeding car driven by an east European diplomat smashed into another, which catapulted through the air and landed on top of the vehicle the girl was in, police said Saturday. Police said a car driven by Gueorgui Makharadze In January of 1997, Gueorgui Makharadze, the deputy ambassador of the Republic of Georgia in Washington caused an accident that injured four people and killed a sixteen-year-old girl. He was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0. , 35, attached to the Republic of Georgia Embassy, was traveling at an excessive rate of speed. Investigators said alcohol also was involved but gave no details. Washington police Detective Mike Harvey said this is what happened: The diplomat's car sped just before midnight Friday into DuPont Circle Dupont Circle is a traffic circle in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Connecticut Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, P Street and 19th Street. , a major traffic interchange An interchange is a location where two things meet, usually perform some kind of exchange, and possibly go on their ways again. It is most commonly used in four contexts:
Embassy Row is the informal name for a street or area of a city where embassies or other diplomatic installations are concentrated. , and crashed into the rear of another car. The second car sailed through the air and landed on top of a third vehicle, then continued on to hit two other vehicles. Joviane Waltrick, 16, of Kensington, Md., a front-seat passenger in the third car, was killed. Secret Service spokesman Marty Ratchford said the diplomat is a minister at the Georgia Embassy. Police said Makharadze was hospitalized in fair condition. The driver of the car the Waltrick girl was in was reported in fair condition at a nearby hospital, where drivers of the other two cars were treated and released. No charges have been filed. The Police Department said it was consulting the U.S. Attorney's Office. Misha Siamashvili, a spokesman for the embassy, would not confirm the diplomat's identity but said he has diplomatic immunity A principle of International Law that provides foreign diplomats with protection from legal action in the country in which they work. Established in large part by the Vienna conventions, diplomatic immunity is granted to individuals depending on their rank and the . The spokesman expressed condolences about the death and said the embassy was working closely with police and investigators. |
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