Two and a half years after the accident that would victimize a couple of octogenaries, Edmundo Assunção, that on the next day of 5 February complete 69 year old, resident in Messejana, county Aljustrel, It begins today to be prosecuted in the Court of Beja, charged with two counts of murder by negligence.
At issue is a head-on collision between two passenger vehicles that occurred on the National Road 18 (IN 18), between the towns of Santa Vitória and Penedo Gordo, in Beja county, on 24 June 2022, who was responsible for the death of a couple of octogenarians.
The collision resulted in the immediate death of José Franco, a retired police officer 83 year old, death that was confirmed at the scene by the doctor in the emergency and resuscitation medical vehicle (VMER). Turn, Vitória Franco, of 82 year old, suffered a myocardial infarction and other serious injuries, being transported to the hospital Beja, dying a month later at São José hospital, in Lisbon, where she was transferred.
According to the order for prosecution of the prosecution of Beja, to which Lidador News (LN) We had access, the defendant was driving his Jaguar vehicle, British registration right-hand drive, towards south / north, “occupying the oncoming lane and collided with the front left part of the vehicle in the same place as the one traveling in the opposite direction”. The accused's vehicle was immobilized in the road ditch one hundred meters from the impact site., while the vehicle driven by the former police officer, he was paralyzed with his wheels in the air, a 30 meters from the place where the collision occurred, leaving the couple incarcerated,
The defendant is tried in a single court, one in which the MP considered that a prison sentence of more than five years should not be imposed.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
