Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) – In the trial of a fatal traffic accident on a zebra crossing in Kriftel (Main-Taunus-Kreis), the driver accused of manslaughter denied an intention to kill. The 33-year-old man had his defense attorney explain on Friday that he made the mistake of his life that September evening in 2015. On the edge of a folk festival, he drove up to a couple who were kissing on the zebra crossing. The man (38) was able to save himself, the 41-year-old woman first got on the hood and then under the vehicle. She was dragged along 400 meters. (Az: 3629 Js 234487/15).
According to the public prosecutor’s office, the driver acted with conditional intent to kill at the latest when the woman fell off the hood. Then he would have had to stop. With this argument, the prosecution achieved that a first judgment from 2018 was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice. The regional court had sentenced the driver to five and a half years in prison for bodily harm resulting in death. At the time, the prosecutor had asked for six and a half years for manslaughter.
In his statement on Friday, the accused also apologized to the victim’s survivors. A perpetrator-victim compensation with compensation for pain and suffering had apparently failed in advance due to the co-plaintiffs, who also did not accept the apology.
