Almodovar: bus driver who went off the A2 sentenced to probation.
Three years and 10 months in prison, suspended, for bus driver which killed three A2.
The bus driver who went off the A2 2015, causing three dead and seven seriously injured, He was sentenced to three years and ten months in prison, suspended, and banned from driving for a year.
Joaquim Oliveira de Matos, of 53 year old, He was sentenced yesterday afternoon by a collective of Judges of the Court of Beja to a sentence of three years and ten months in prison in legal height, but suspended, and also to an accessory penalty of one year without being able to drive.
The accused was charged and sentenced for three negligent manslaughter and seven offense of negligent crimes to physical integrity, a serious and simple six (Summary of penalties: three negligent homicide crimes: 1 year and 3 months in prison for each, one offense of negligent crime to severe physical integrity: 8 months in prison, six offense of crimes the simple negligent bodily integrity: 3 months in prison for each. Total years in prison: five years and eleven months. legal cluster: three years and ten months in prison, suspended for the same period). The insurance company was ordered to pay compensation 102 thousand euros to one of the victims.
During the reading of the judgment the judge Ana Batista interrupted to rebuke the accused's conduct that smile and disagreed with head wags, telling him "you're funny. Keep quiet and not laugh when I say ", reminding him that the case was very serious.
Before the magistrate had already censured the defendant stance during the trial "when a version bet, I do not know how to classify, that the fault was of the vehicle ", shooting that the accident was a great violence. The defendant always maintained in his defense that "without knowing why the bus ran off to the right".
At the end of the reading of the judgment, Gilberto Quental, the lawyer Joaquim Matos, JN revealed that would appeal decision, namely, because "there was evidence which was not produced in court. The bus was never seized the order of the process to be properly inspected by security forces. My client has never had an accident ", finished.
In the accident that happened on 19 June 2015, to 18,30 hours, at km 192,8 Highway South (A2), with a bus of Barraqueiro, to provide service to the Renex, network express, that was the connection between Lagos and Lisbon (Gare do Oriente) carrying 19 passengers, died José Sousa Moura, Maria da Boa Hora Master and Astrid Scheubert, a German national, resident in Lagos, that they were designed out of the vehicle and had death site.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
