From this Monday, November 4, to Wednesday the 6th, the First Section of the Provincial Court of Cantabria will judge Jaime AF, a resident of Ribamontán al Mar who is in provisional prison for Suesa’s triple fatal attack occurred in April 2023, in which a woman and a mother and her son died.
The man, who at the time of the events had 73 years old, traveling at 79 kilometers per hour in a section limited to 50 km/h, almost tripling the permitted alcohol level and being under the influence of medication.
He faces between six and nine years in prison which, respectively, are requested for him by the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution, carried out by relatives of the victims, while the defense requests his free acquittal.
FACTS
The accident took place around 8:00 p.m. on April 4, 2023, when the accused He lost control of his vehicle and went off the road on CA-433 as it passes through Suesa.
mortally trampled three people who were staying at the campsite from the town and who had gone out for a walk along the pedestrian promenade next to the road: a mother and her son, aged 42 and 19, residents of Sestao (Vizcaya) and a 68-year-old woman from Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja). ).
PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
The defendant will be prosecuted as the alleged author of three crimes of homicide due to serious imprudencea crime of injuries due to serious recklessness, a crime against road safety for driving with manifest recklessness and another for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The public ministry demands a sentence of six years in prison and nine deprivation of the right to drive (which represents the definitive loss of the same), in addition to compensation to the relatives of the deceased of 601,681 euros.
RELATIVES
For their part, those close to the victims raise the request to nine years in prison and thirteen deprivation of the right to drive. Regarding compensation, the family of one of the deceased requests a total sum of 336,373 euros, while that of the deceased mother and son claims 628,389 euros.
The driver’s defense is interested in the free acquittal of his clientunderstanding that he was not the author of any crime and that, in any case, the incomplete exonerating circumstance of his client’s alcohol level would apply.
DISABILITY
Since April 2016, it has recognized a 65% disability and after the events, he tested positive for medication for depression, although it did not influence what happened, according to the coroner who examined him last fall. In his report, to which Europa Press has had access, he also concluded that The person investigated did not present any pathology or mental disorder. that altered the normal functioning of his intellectual and volitional capacity, although the latter was influenced by the consumption of alcohol prior to the accident.
After the accident, the uncontrolled vehicle collided with a metal fence and continued traveling until colliding with the vehicle in front of it, which left the road.
The case has been directed by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Santoña, which last May agreed to open an oral trial and ratified the precautionary measures adopted so, a priori, the investigated person will remain in prison until the celebration of the view at the Court. The magistrate also agreed that the defendant and his insurer provide a bail of 1.1 million euros to ensure the pecuniary and civil responsibilities that may be imposed in a sentence.
ALCOHOL AND MEDICATIONS
As detailed by the prosecutor in his indictment, the accused was driving his vehicle on the CA-433 highway as he passed through Ribamontán al Mar under the influence of alcoholic beverages combined with the medication he was taking, which “enhances the effect of alcohol.” , and acting “without paying due attention to traffic”.
As a result of the state he presented was driving “invading a good part of the opposite lane” and, at one point, “after a normal curve to the left, he lost control of the vehicle, leaving the road on the right shoulder.” In this maneuver, he ran over the three people who were walking along a marked pedestrian path attached to the road. The uncontrolled vehicle then collided with a metal fence and continued traveling until colliding with the vehicle in front of it, which left the road.
The accused’s car continued its journey, invading the opposite direction and then returned to the right lane, until it collided with a fence where it was stopped. After the events, they carried out breathalyzer tests that gave a result of 0.70 and 0.73 milligrams of alcohol per liter of exhaled air, and samples were taken that showed a result of 1.38 grams of alcohol in the blood.
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