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After examining the resounding case, the judge of the Mažeikiai Chamber of the Telšiai District Court, Jūratė Žemgulienė, decided to release S. Kaktis, who had reached an agreement with the victims, from criminal responsibility and terminate the case.
Although the case was terminated, the court imposed a criminal sanction on S. Kakčius, prohibiting him from driving vehicles for one year.
The court approved the agreement signed between S. Kaktis and the victims on reconciliation and compensation. The agreement also analyzes the schedule according to which S.Kaktys will compensate the victims for a part of the non-material damage that has not yet been compensated: 60 thousand euros.
I did not notice that the child passed
The disaster on the afternoon of November 15, 2018 occurred in the Mažeikiai district, on the section of the Anulynai – Tirkšliai highway near the town of Balėna.
A bus carrying students from the school stopped on the side street to free a beginner who lived on a single farm.
After getting off the bus, the boy tried to cross the street because the house was across the street. There were no crosswalks on this stretch of the road and cars could travel at a speed of 90 kilometers per hour.
S.Kaktys, who was driving a Volvo S 90 in front of him, did not notice the boy entering the street and was fatally injured.
The driver himself reported the accident to the police.
The arriving officials checked S.Kaktis with an alcohol meter. It turned out that the director of the Mažeikiai Hospital was driving sober.
Significantly exceeded the speed limit
As a result of a traffic violation that killed one person, pretrial investigation officers found that the bus released by the student stopped with flashing orange warning lights and road visibility was good.
Investigators found that the student who got off the bus was in no rush to cross the street, expecting the minibus to move and there would be better visibility. When the boy crossed the street from Telšiai, a car flew by at high speed, the driver of which perhaps did not notice the boy and obstructed him. The student died at the scene.
The Volvo S 90, driven by S. Kakčius, was also found to be traveling at a speed of approximately 149 km / h, meaning that it significantly exceeded the speed limit of 90 on this section of the road.
In addition, the driver had to slow down and, if necessary, stop to overtake the children and their companion when approaching a stopped bus with children’s signs and an emergency light activated.
The experts came to different conclusions
According to investigators, the pre-trial investigation was complex and time-consuming because experts provided different data on the speed of the car at the time of the incident.
S. Kaktis’s attorney presented data from a specialized auto service computer and the conclusion of a private traffic accident expert that the speed during the impact was approximately 94 km / h.
The speed of the car at the moment of impact and the mechanism of the traffic accident, which was a condition for the occurrence of this tragic traffic accident, were confirmed by the Lithuanian Forensic Science Center.
Investigators also received data that S.Kaktys had been punished several times before for speeding.
During the pre-trial investigation, complaints were also made against a bus driver who had to accompany a child under the age of ten to the other side of the road.
It was later decided to terminate the pre-trial investigation against the bus driver, as he would only have been criminally liable if it had been established that S. Kaktys had not violated traffic regulations.
S.Kaktys, who was not responsible for the tragic event, met with the parents of the deceased student immediately after the event and, awaiting the end of the investigation, benevolently transferred 15,000 euros to them.
The personality of the accused was also taken into account
As S. Kaktys pleaded guilty, this case was examined in the Mažeikiai Chamber of the Telšiai District Court in an abbreviated examination of evidence.
The court stated that the evidence examined at the hearing did not raise any doubt that S. Kaktys had committed the crime with which he was charged.
When making its decision, the court, taking into account the personality of the defendant, the data that characterize him, the mitigating circumstances established in the case, the absence of aggravating factors, concluded that there are reasons to believe that the defendant will comply with the law and not commit new crimes.
Taking into account the data examined in the case, the court determined that S.Kaktis can be acquitted because he pleaded guilty, voluntarily partially compensated the damage and agreed with the victims to compensate the remaining damage, as well as reconciled with the victims. and there is reason to believe that S.Kaktys will no longer commit new criminal acts.
The judge of the Mažeikiai Chamber of the Telšiai District Court can still appeal against this verdict.
The case was closed by prescription
S.Kaktys, who has PhD studies, was a member of the Seimas in 1996-2000, and in 1999-2000, also Minister of Management Reform and Municipal Affairs.
S.Kaktys reminded many residents of the country that in 1999 he signed an agreement with the American company Williams on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on the sale of shares of the joint-stock company Mažeikių Nafta.
Subsequently, S. Kaktys, together with the Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Didžiokas and the Deputy Minister of Economy Antanas Bartulis, were accused of abusing their official position and exceeding their official powers by initiating and signing this agreement.
The so-called Mažeikių Nafta case was later resolved by the court due to the statute of limitations.
After retiring from mainstream politics, S. Kaktys worked as an orthopedist-traumatologist at the Telšiai Regional Hospital and became the director of the Mažeikiai Hospital, which he still runs.
