Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis hit a man at a pedestrian crossing while driving his car on Monday afternoon.
The man was taken to hospital, Odeta Vaitkevičienė, spokesperson of the Kaunas County Police Headquarters, confirmed to BNS.
“We received a report at 12:04 from a passerby that a Rolls-Royce driven by the city mayor hit a 30-year-old pedestrian at a pedestrian crossing on Pramonės Avenue, according to preliminary data,” she said.
The pedestrian was taken to a medical facility due to the injuries sustained.
“According to the available information, the pedestrian’s life is not in danger, and the mayor was driving sober,” Vaitkevičienė said.
“Officers are still working at the scene and it will take a little longer to complete the traffic accident report. They are still working on it,” she said when asked if the police had launched an investigation into the incident.
In winter 2018, Matijošaitis also hit and injured a pedestrian while driving his car.
The mayor’s car then knocked down an 80-year-old man near the crosswalk in Šv. Gertrūdos Street in downtown Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city. The injuries sustained by the pedestrian were not serious.
Matijošaitis promised at the time that he would no longer drive during working hours.
Moreover, the mayor was involved in an incident in 2016 when he allegedly failed give way to a pedestrian crossing the street. A witness then said he saw a man standing on the crossing, leaning against a black car and banging on the bonnet, angry at the driver.
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