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Humberside Police on Friday charged Vladimir Motin, captain of one of the vessels involved in Monday’s fatal collision between a container ship and an oil tanker off the East Yorkshire coast, with gross negligence manslaughter.
Motin, 59, from Primorsky, near St Petersburg in Russia, was in charge of the container ship Solong when it collided with the Stena Immaculate off Withernsea, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In the subsequent explosion, a member of the Solong’s crew went missing and is presumed dead.
“The captain of the Solong vessel, Vladimir Motin, 59 years old, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, Russia, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter and been remanded in police custody to appear at Hull Magistrates’ Court tomorrow,” a statement on Friday evening said.
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