Self-Defense leader Lepper in Warsaw car crash

The leader of Self-Defense (Samoobrona), Andrzej Lepper and Sejm deputy Krzysztof Filipek were injured in a car crash yesterday. The accident occurred at 5.40 pm at the junction of Warsaw's Lazienkowska and Czern iakowska Streets. The two politicians were being driven in an official staff car which crashed into a Fiat Cinquecento carrying three men. "Andrzej Lepper broke his arm, and Krzysztof Filipek sustained leg injuries," said Inspector Waldemar Wierzbicki of the Traffic Department, however, doctors from the government hospital described the condition of the deputies as good. Police said the cars were not exceeding the speed limit and no alcohol had been detected in the bloodstream of the Fiat driver. Thus there is no evidence so far that would shed light on who is to blame. "Somebody must be concealing the truth," said one of the local policemen. The two deputies and the driver were visited by Sejm Speaker Marek Borowski, who wished the men "a speedy recovery to health and to their official duties". (Zycie, p. 5) A.C.