Matthew Bryza

OFFICIAL SLAMS DRIVING RECORD OF U.S. DIPLOMATS. Russian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Valerii Nesterushkin has charged that
U.S. diplomats break traffic rules more often than staff of any other
foreign embassy, Russian news agencies reported on 21 August. He
said U.S. embassy staff were cited for 141 traffic violations between
1 January and 18 August. The U.S. State Department on 20 August
announced plans to recall Matthew Bryza, a second secretary of the
U.S. embassy in Moscow, who two days earlier had been driving a car
that hit and critically injured a Moscow pedestrian. Nesterushkin said
the criminal case against Bryza will remain open as police continue
investigating the accident. Bryza cannot be prosecuted unless the U.S.
lifts his immunity. In February, Georgian President Eduard
Shevardnadze lifted the immunity of a Georgian diplomat who
caused a car accident in Washington that killed one woman. That
diplomat is currently in pre-trial detention in the U.S.
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 1, No. 101. August 1997


U.S. DIPLOMAT SERIOUSLY INJURES WOMAN IN CAR ACCIDENT IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, Aug 19 (Interfax-Moscow) 1997 - A U.S. diplomat has
seriously injured a woman in a car accident in Moscow, the City
Law Enforcement Department told Interfax Tuesday. The car, an
Isuzu Trooper driven by Second Secretary of the U.S. Embassy
Matthew Bryza, 33, hit an unidentified woman near house 13 Ul.
Panferova, the Southwestern precinct, at 10:00 p.m. Moscow time
Monday, police have reported. The woman, about 30 years old, was
taken to hospital with a serious head injury. She is in a coma.

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