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The Telšiai District Prosecutor’s Office Prosecutor Arūnas Laukaitis has completed the pre-trial investigation and handed over a criminal case to the court, in which the director of the Mažeikiai hospital, Sigitas Kaktys, is accused of causing an accident in the that a young man died, the prosecutor said. informs the office.
The incident, which ended in an accident, took place on November 15, 2018 in the district of Mažeikiai, on the section of the Anulynai – Tirkšliai highway near the town of Balėna.
During the pre-trial investigation, data was collected that around 2 pm the school bus, which was taking the children home after school, stopped to drop off a child in Balėnai. The bus stopped with the warning lights flashing orange and visibility from the road was good.
According to the study, when the student was discharged from the bus, he was in no rush to cross the road, waiting for the minibus to move and for better visibility. When the boy crossed the street from the Telšiai side, a car flew by at high speed, which may not have noticed the boy and allegedly obstructed him. The student died at the scene.
During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that the car was being driven by the then doctor at Telšiai S.Kaktys Regional Hospital.
The speed limit on this stretch of road is 90 km / h and, according to the Road Traffic Regulations (KET), the driver, when approaching a stopped vehicle with identification signs for children and an emergency light on, or a stopped school bus with flashing orange warning lights, you must slow down and, if necessary, stop to pass children and the person accompanying them.
A member of Parliament, a former minister, has been penalized more than once for speeding.
The driver was found to be sober at the scene. The man does not admit his guilt and claims that he did not exceed the speed limit. According to available data, the former MP, in 1999-2000. S. Kaktys, who served as Minister for Management Reform and Municipal Affairs in the Government, has been punished more than once for speeding.
The pre-trial investigation was complex and time consuming due to data provided multiple times and by different experts on the speed of the car at the time of the incident.
The defendant provided data from a specialized automotive service computer and the conclusion of a private traffic accident expert that the speed during the impact was lower (around 94 km / h), so the violation of S. Kaktis was not the main condition of the accident.
The specialists in the case were assigned various tasks, and the Lithuanian Forensic Science Center confirmed the significantly exceeded speed of the car during the impact and the mechanism of the traffic accident, which was a condition for the occurrence of the traffic accident.
During the investigation, complaints of violation of traffic or safety regulations were also made to the bus driver, who according to the KET had a duty to accompany a child under 10 years of age to the other side of the road, but did not do so. so.
The investigation against the bus driver was terminated because criminal liability would have been possible if it had been established that the driver of the car who struck the child, S.Kaktys, did not violate KET requirements, and the traffic accident was due to a minor. negligence and violation of the rules.
According to the data collected during the investigation, the boy drove on the road in accordance with KET rules and the driver of the car violated them.
Immediately after the incident, the defendant met with the student’s parents, pending the outcome of the pre-trial investigation and the results of the investigation, and transferred € 15,000 to them in good faith.
The pre-trial investigation in this case was conducted by officials of the Telšiai County Police Chief Commissariat, and the investigation was conducted by the prosecutor of the Telšiai District Prosecutor’s Office, A. Laukaitis.
The case was transferred to the Mažeikiai Chamber of the Telšiai District Court. The Penal Code stipulates that any person who has violated road safety regulations while driving a road vehicle, if he has caused an accident that has caused the death of a person, will be punished with up to 8 years in prison.
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