The Supreme Court of Cassation upheld the fully reduced sentence of 4 years and 8 months in prison for 31-year-old Ukrainian driver Stanislav Pislar, who swept and killed pregnant Severina Koralska and her husband Ivaylo Minchev on the Trakia highway.
The severe accident happened on May 28, 2018 at the 124th kilometer of the highway, while 34-year-olds Severina and Ivaylo were traveling to Sofia. The young family lived in Burgas. Until recently, Severina worked as a pharmacist, but changed her job and became a representative of a drug company. Ivailo worked in a private company. They were expecting their first child. In the capital, a woman seven months pregnant was to be examined. The incident happened after Pislar, who was driving a Latvian truck, entered the oncoming traffic and hit the front in which the couple were traveling.
In December 2018, a panel of the Plovdiv District Court sentenced the Ukrainian to 9 years in prison, but the Court of Appeal overturned the sentence because during the trial of the defendant no translation from his native Ukrainian was provided, and it was translated from Russian.
During the second hearing of the case by the district magistrates Pislar was sentenced to 7 years in prison. The sentence was handed down in a shortened trial and reduced by a third by law after the driver pleaded guilty. In addition, the Ukrainian was deprived of the right to drive for 8 years.
At the beginning of September last year the punishment for the circulation was reduced for the second time by the appellate magistrates of 4 years and 8 monthsand.
Now the supreme judges are confirming the decision of the appellate court. The Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that the appellate magistrates have correctly accepted that in this case the driver violated only the traffic rules under Art. 20, para. 1 of the Traffic Act for continuous control of the vehicle, in causal connection with the socially dangerous result, which is why he proceeded from the lawful position that the perpetrator should be held criminally liable only for violations of these rules of the road, which are in direct causal connection with the occurred harmful result.
The decision of the Supreme Court of Cassation is final.
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