Diogo L., of 32 year old, natural Aljustrel, assumed before the Collective of Judges of the Court of Beja, the authorship of the four crimes of which he is being tried.
Three from negligent homicide and one from dangerous driving of a road vehicle, following a violent head-on collision that occurred near that village.
On 5 October 2020, the National Road (IN) 383, in Aljustrel, the defendant was driving a light passenger vehicle, BMW brand, where four people traveled, which collided with a closed light of goods, which caught fire and where the two charred occupants died. Two days later, an individual 29 years that followed in the BMW and that he had been transported by helicopter to Hospital de São José, in Lisbon, would also die.
Subject to psychotropic substance screening test, the individual accused the presence of cocaine in the blood, cannabinóides and methylenodioximethamphetamine (MDMA).
before the judges, Diogo assumed that "carelessly" the vehicle he was driving "invaded the opposite lane and collided with the other vehicle", justifying that the consumption of narcotics "were consumed the night before", concluded.
The sequence of the clash, the goods vehicle where two brothers were traveling, a man of 51 years and a woman 48 year old, after the collision, It crashed, overturned and burned later and which led to the death of the occupants.
In addition to the four crimes he is accused of, the defendant still risks an administrative offense, for not having civil liability insurance, since the MP extracted a certificate that he sent to the National Road Safety Authority.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
