Agent found guilty after doodrijden 18-year-old

Posted on 03-04-2015 16:28 by MauritsH – 51 Comments”

The district court of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the netherlands today has a agent convicted in 2013, an 18-year-old girl on a scooter doodreed.

At the time, drove the defendant, a member of the Arrest Team, in a convoy of police cars by Eindhoven. With siren and flashing lights was the agent on the way to a confused man who may be on the verge himself and police officers to shoot.

Defendant drove this need to speed through a red light at an intersection. That is, according to the judge reason to believe that the agent art. 6 of the road traffic act has violated (click for pronunciation). The main consideration of the court reads as follows:

In the opinion of the court has the defendant when entering the kruisingsvlak the safety of the other road users are not sufficiently considered and adequately accounted for the possible reactions of other road users on the different behaviour of the suspect and the other members of the AOT.

Defendant had to be aware that other road users will not make him noticed and allowed him not to let go. Partly with a view to the general safety and the unpredictable behaviour of other road users are in the above-mentioned regulations limits the allowable deviation from the generally applicable traffic rules. The red light can be ignored with a maximum speed of 20 km/h and the maximum speed is allowed with a maximum of 40 km/h are exceeded. Furthermore, the policy that junctions with appropriate speed are approached and crossed.

Moreover, the agent is initially not prosecuted for the events in which the 18-year-old girl came to death. It was by her relatives and filed a complaint, and then later it was decided to to prosecute.

The court finally gave a half-year conditional rijontzegging, where justice initially to acquittal had asked. Or against the judgment of appeal is not yet known.