Putting a dent in the Church’s reputational halo, a drunk Orthodox Christian priest in western Ukraine got into two road accidents within minutes, local media said on Thursday.
The unnamed village priest was driving a Daewoo Nexia on a highway when he hit a KIA sedan, Unian.net said, citing traffic police.
The clergyman fled the scene without checking whether the KIA passengers needed help, but soon rammed a Mercedes and had to be hospitalized, the report said.
The priest’s blood alcohol content was 0.18 percent, well above the allowed limit of 0.02 percent, Unian.net said.
He was not the first man of the cloth to misbehave on Ukrainian roads: earlier this month, a drunken priest in the country’s northwest rammed a power pole with his Volkswagen minivan, leaving two streets without electricity.
In February, a drunken priest rampaged through the sidewalks of the capital Kiev on a jeep and tried to beat up traffic police who stopped him.
