A Russian diplomat may get away with hitting a police officer with his car while attempting to drive onto a closed section of the FDR Drive on Saturday.

The diplomat, Ilya Morozov, 28, was served with seven summonses yesterday but not arrested because he is protected by international law.

Mr. Morozov swerved around cones and attempted to enter a closed section of the FDR Drive from 108th Street when he struck an officer directing traffic, police said. The officer suffered a wound to his knee and was taken to Cornell University Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

Police said alcohol was noticeable on Mr. Morozov’s breath, but officers were unable to administer a Breathalyzer test because of his diplomatic status.

Mr. Morozov is an attache at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, according to a U.N. Web site last updated in November. An official at the consulate, Alex Karasev, said the office hadn’t dealt with the charges as of yesterday. Mr. Morozov lives in Russian Federation housing in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

Officers refused to allow him to drive home. They brought him to the 23rd Precinct, where he waited until someone picked him up.

“Under normal circumstances, the motorist would be taken into custody, but because of this individual’s diplomatic status he’s immune from the legal procedures that apply to everyone else,” Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.

After consulting with the State Department, police officials decided to issue summonses to Mr. Morozov for speeding in a work zone, failure to use a designated lane, operating a motor vehicle on the sidewalk, operating a motor vehicle on the shoulder, improper entrance from a controlled highway, failure to comply with a lawful order by a police officer, and driving while ability impaired by alcohol. The charge of driving while impaired is punishable by a fine of as much as $500 and up to 15 days in jail, but diplomats are protected by international law from being arrested or prosecuted in foreign courts.

Citing immunity, diplomats in the past haven’t shown up for their court appearances, a police source said. The State Department has the power to declare a diplomat a persona non grata and eject him from America, but this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.

The former deputy ambassador of the Republic of Georgia to America, Gueorgui Makharadze, was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison in 1997 after he caused an accident in Washington, D.C., that injured four people and killed a 16-year-old girl. Makharadze was driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.15, reports said. The Georgian government waived his immunity and he was sentenced to seven years in prison. In 2000, his sentencing was commuted to a Georgian prison.

Russian diplomats and the New York Police Department have had their share of disputes in the last decade. In 1997, police officers got into a scuffle with two drunken diplomats, one from Russia and the other from Belarus, who were arguing with the officers over a parking ticket. One of the men punched an officer, according to an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney. The embassies refused to waive immunity for the diplomats, but the diplomats were soon reassigned to work in their home countries.

Mayor Giuliani took a hard line with Russia’s diplomats during his administration, saying they led the pack of embassies flouting New York City laws and causing quality of life disturbances.

The Russians, along with scores of other consulates in the city, were criticized for what was characterized as their flagrant disregard for parking laws in the city. The country racked up 32,350 parking summonses in 1996 alone.