Lawsuits|The driving line was incorrect, but it was not excessive risk-taking, the court stated.
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The district court of Varsinais-Suomen rejected the charges in the case where a conscript drove an armored vehicle into a ditch in Pöytyä.
The court found that the accident was not caused by the driver’s negligence, but by an accident.
The prosecutor demanded punishment for the crime of negligent service and endangering traffic safety.
The repair costs of the Pasi vehicle were more than 100,000 euros, and several conscripts were injured.
Legal dismissed all charges in the case where a conscript accidentally drove the armored personnel carrier he was driving into a ditch in Pöytyä in October 2022.
The District Court of Varsinais-Suomen considered that the accident was caused by an accident, not by the negligence of the driver. It therefore dismissed the charges.
The prosecutor demanded that the then jaeger, now a corporal in the reserve, be punished for the crime of negligent service, endangering traffic safety and four injuries, because many conscripts who were on board were injured in the derailment. One of them, for example, broke the bones of his hand.
Damages were caused to the Pasi transport vehicle, the repair costs of which were more than 100,000 euros.
The conscripts participated in the exercise of the Satakunta jaeger battalion of the Pori brigade in Ylänee.
Legal specifically wondered if the driver had been careless when Pasi, who came last in the convoy, drifted into the ditch on the right. The accident happened in a curve so that the right wheel hit the soft pavement and the carriage continued to travel straight, even though the driver turned left.
The driver of the vehicle said that the bench seemed to suck the wagon into the ditch when the speed was 70-80 kilometers per hour. He said that he told the driver a few times before the situation to drive closer to the center of the road.
The crew was not wearing seat belts inside the vehicle. The driver himself said that he drove the nearly three-meter-wide wagon as best he could.
He felt that he was lagging behind the other carriages and thought that the other drivers were more experienced than him. He also said that he would have had to drive much slower to make it through the same corner as the other drivers.
Legal stated that keeping a wide wagon in a narrow lane requires great skill and precision. According to it, the driver’s choice of lane was slightly incorrect, but it was not due to excessive risk-taking, i.e. a mistake.
The court did not doubt that the driver tried to fulfill his transport task to the best of his ability.
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