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On February 13, 2020, a criminal case was investigated in the Kaunas Chamber of the Kaunas District Court for an accident that occurred in the Kaunas district, during which two passengers were killed and a third person suffered a minor health disorder.
The district court found I. Mačiulienė guilty and sentenced the nine victims out of a total of 105 thousand. moral damage.
Erik Ovcharenko / 15 Minute Photo / Indra Mačiulienė
The District Court sentenced the defendants to 4 years in prison, postponing the execution of the sentence for two years and imposing obligations on them – within 3 months from the entry into force of the sentence to apologize to the victims (the victims assured that I.Mačiulienė did not during the period of suspension of the execution of the labor sentence, not to leave the city (district) of the place of residence without the permission of the institution executing the supervision of the convicted person and compensate at least one part of the non-pecuniary damage to all victims.
The defendant was also deprived of the right to drive by the trial court for 2 years and 6 months.
15min.lt collage / Indra Mačiulienė in court
On appeal, according to the Kaunas Regional Court press release, the convicted person requested the reversal and acquittal of the sentence on February 13, 2020, but on January 25, 2021, the panel of judges ruled that the lower court had reasonably found I. Mačiulienė guilty of the accident.
The appellate court panel of judges did not challenge the circumstances noted in the district court’s verdict that the victims and the dead were closely related, that the victims suffered negative emotions and spiritual experiences due to the deaths of two women, but She assessed that I Mačiulienė did not look for others, her economic situation is difficult: she has three children, two of whom are minors, her husband can only work 40%.
The College pointed out that when determining the amount of non-pecuniary damage, it is also important to ensure that the person who caused the damage can actually pay it and has an interest in doing so as soon as possible, and that the victims actually receive the amount awarded. With this in mind, the panel of judges reduced the amount of moral damages awarded to the victims to 46,000. euros.
Marius Vizbaras / 15min photo / Indra Mačiulienė in court
The panel of judges of the Kaunas Regional Court decided that the fair and reasonable amount of compensation for moral damage to the life partners of the victims (V.Š. and VP) is 7 thousand each. € 9,000 each for NPP’s mother (IE) and DJA’s daughter (DA). EUR, for the sisters of the late NPP – 3 thousand. euros.
The panel of judges also reduced the amount of non-pecuniary damage awarded to the UI victim to 2,000. Because the victim suffered from a minor health disorder, there were no residual phenomena after the injury.
The panel of judges stated that the Criminal Law does not provide for the possibility of forcing the convicted person to compensate for non-pecuniary damage, therefore such an obligation of the court of first instance could not be assigned to I. Mačiuliene. Therefore, the panel of judges upheld the appeal in part.
This judgment of the Kaunas Regional Court will enter into force on the day of its adoption.
15 minutes recalls that I.Mačiulienė, born in Kaunas and born in 1978, was convicted of violating traffic regulations while driving an Opel Meriva on the Vaišvydava – Piliuona – Pakuonis – Pabališkiai road in the village of Margininkai in the Kaunas district in November 2018.
The convict was out of control of the vehicle, went into the opposite lane and collided with a Škoda Octavia in a straight line. The impact on the forehead was so strong that the engine flew into the dense forest. Even then, it was speculated that the Opel I.Mačiulienė driver might not have noticed the curve of the road and would drive in the opposite direction.
A Škoda Octavia DJA driver born in 1968 and a rear seat passenger AE born in 1974 were killed in the collision, while two other passengers (one born in 1999 (V.Ž.), the other in 1991 (UI)) were killed. wounded. . Their lives were not in danger. During the pre-trial investigation, mild and mild health disorders were identified.
I.Mačiulienė herself is consciously pulled out of the car.
The Prosecutor’s Office has announced that I.Mačiulienė has not confessed to having committed a crime in court. In general, he refused to testify during the trial.
I. Mačiuliene was charged with violating the rules of road safety or vehicle operation, if a person died as a result. This was punishable by up to eight years in prison.
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