The incident occurred in Lwówek County, Lower Silesia, on Friday, October 10. Just before 4 p.m., the duty officer at the District Police Headquarters in Lwówek Śląski received a report of an accident in Krzewie Wielkie. According to the report, the driver of an Audi A6 passenger car hit a man and then drove away from the scene. The victim was thrown into a ditch by the force of the impact, reports lwowecki.info.
The victim was Paweł Kuryło, a runner who often promotes sobriety. This time, he was pursuing that goal by running around Poland. As reported by Gazeta.pl, police and emergency medical teams arrived at the scene of the accident. The runner was taken to hospital, where he was examined. “How can someone flee the scene of an accident without providing assistance?” asked Piotr Kuryło, the victim’s brother, on Facebook. Two hours later, police received a report that a car was on fire in a nearby forest near Miłoszów. It was established that it was the vehicle used to hit the runner. Officers then arrested the driver. He is a 30-year-old resident of Lubań County. Asp. Olga Łukaszewicz of the police in Lwówek Śląski said that the man was sober.