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Parents who lost children in a grueling accident were able to forgive the BMW driver: they were best friends

The victim of the accident, which claimed two lives, was acquitted and the criminal case was examined Vilnius District Court – M. Kildišius was sober at the wheel, previously unlawful, no new pre-trial investigations have been initiated against him, he is young, working, pleaded guilty and sincerely regretted, apologized to the victims and reconciled with them, compensated the property and non-property damage.

“There is reason to believe that M. Kildišius will not commit new criminal offenses, therefore all conditions exist to apply the provisions of the Criminal Law to him and to release M. Kildišius from criminal liability if the accused and the victims reconcile and terminate the criminal case,” the judge stated in a pending judgment. Yugenijus Jaglinskis.

However, as the court has pointed out, the acquittal of the offender between the perpetrator and the victim by conciliation is not an absolute acquittal of the perpetrator: when the offender commits a new criminal offense, the issue of prosecuting that person for all the offenses committed shall be resolved. “

The judge who terminated the criminal case also decided to ban M. Kildišis from driving vehicles for two years and ordered him to pay a contribution of one thousand euros to the Victims’ Fund within two months.

According to the data of the case, a painful accident in Vilnius, Steponas Batoro Street, took place on September 11 last year, at about 11.55 pm, when towards the center by car.BMW 330 XD ”, M. Kildišius did not take into account the road repair works carried out on the road section and exceeded the permissible 20 km / h here. maximum speed limit, and the unruly drive drove off the road, hit a road sign, bushes and overturned several times – all that was left of BMW was scrap metal.

The accident immediately killed a 20-year-old passenger in the front passenger seat who fell out of a collapsing car – his body was terribly mutilated and is thought to have been crushed by a car. At the time, a 20-year-old passenger in a BMW rear seat was also seriously injured. He had to be driven from the pressed car by fire and rescue workers. The man, who had suffered severe injuries, was immediately immersed in a coma, from which he died in hospital without recovering.

Both killed passengers were sober.

The BMW driver, who was prosecuted for the tragic accident, explained during the interrogation that he and his friends were driving to the Žirmūnai district that day, where they intended to play billiards.

“I didn’t see the road signs, only the column, and I didn’t see that the road section was cut – I started wearing the car, and after that I don’t remember much, I see the images as if through the fog,” said M. Kildišius.

He made no secret of the fact that he had recently returned from abroad, where he lived, and the road on which the accident took place was infrequent and unaware of him.

“I drove about 100-110 km / h. – the driver acknowledged that the speeding in the lane under repair was precisely tragic. accidents the culprit.

“I didn’t see a road sign that the speed limit in that place is 20 km / h,” the young man lamented.

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He said the victims were very close to him – one was a neighbor and best friend he had grown up with since childhood, and the other was a classmate.

M. Kildišius explained that he sincerely regrets the death of two friends.

“I compensated the victims – I gave 5,000 euros each to the parents of both dead friends,” during the criminal case, M. Kildišius said that he also contributed by paying for the monument, which he promised to do to the parents of the other victim.

During the investigation, it became clear that that evening more friends of M. Kildišis were going to Žirmūnai district to play billiards, but they were sitting in another car and driving first.

“While driving, I turned to see if Mantas was driving from behind,” said the passenger in the next car. – Then I suddenly saw that the car behind me, which was maybe 50 meters behind, turned abruptly to the right. I knew this road well, so I told a friend to stop – there is no road where Manto’s car went, there is only a forest. I realized something had happened, so we went back to see why the car there suddenly turned around. We saw a BMW trunk lying on the road, then rushed to look for a car we had already found in the depths of the forest. Mantas had already got out and shouted where his friend was … But he was already dead and the other one in the car was still shaking … ”

The mother of one of the victims found out that she had lost her son in a tragic accident only in the morning – as if the woman had deliberately discharged her mobile phone on the eve.

“I knew my son was going to play billiards with friends,” she said. – In the morning I saw a missed call, so I called back. A police officer answered, and then I learned that his son had died in a traffic accident. “

The parents of the lonely son, who was still taken to the hospital alive from the scene of the accident at the time, said they had not been able to communicate with him before his death. “The son was in a coma all the time,” said the mother’s surviving mother.

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