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The Prosecutor’s Office reports that on the afternoon of January 13 of this year a tragic accident occurred in the Trakai district, at kilometer 35 of the Vilnius-Prienai-Marijampolė highway. A 63-year-old Vilnius driver of a Citroen Berlingo car, who was driving on a semi-trailer truck, went into the opposite lane and collided with a Fiat Doblo car that he was driving in 2002. born young.
According to the pre-trial investigation, the Citroen driver, through carelessness and carelessness, violated the requirements of the Traffic Regulations, failed to assess difficult traffic weather conditions, did not choose a safe speed and overtook the truck within the validity of the signal. of traffic “Forbidden to bend vehicles”. After leaning over the car, the Citroen driver collided with a Fiat car traveling in the opposite lane from Vilnius towards Marijampolė, which collided with a truck after a severe impact.
A Fiat driver and four passengers (born in 1983, 1991, 1993 and 2003) were killed in the accident. They all worked for a company and drove home after work.
The relatives of the victims filed civil lawsuits in the courts, the total amount of which exceeds 900 thousand. euros.
The pre-trial investigation was conducted by officials from the Road Safety Investigation Division of the Vilnius County LSC Road Police Board and was conducted by the Prosecutor of the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Office.
The Criminal Code establishes that a person who violates road safety regulations or the operation of a vehicle while driving a traffic accident, which resulted in a fatal accident (article 281 (5) of the CC), is punished with up to eight years’ ‘. prison.
The criminal case was transferred to the Trakai Chamber of the Vilnius Regional District Court.
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