Salvada / Beja: Conductive punished with imprisonment, suspended, By double death.
Conductive charged with two counts of murder by negligence, the death in a car accident a couple of Salvada (Beja), It was ordered to 2 years and 2 months in prison. The sentence was suspended.
A Portuguese citizen, 24 year old, resident in Serpa, conductor of a passenger car, charged with two counts of murder by negligence, He was sentenced by the Court of Mértola, a 2 years and 2 months in prison, suspended for the same period.
The defendant was also ordered to pay a penalty 1 year disqualification and the payment of compensation to 30 thousand euros.
At issue was the involvement of women in an accident that caused the screening of a passenger car, where died a couple, both with 55 year old, two counts of murder by negligence.
The accident occurred on 19 July 2015, at km 62, the National Road (IN) 122, near Poplar Hill, municipality of Mértola, when the couple Francisco and Maria Palma Ramos, resident Salvada, county Beja, traveled on vacation to Monte Gordo, Vila Real de Santo António county.
The car, a BMW, led by Francisco Ramos, It was hit laterally, when I was overtaking another passenger car, conducted by defendant, which in turn, initiated exceeding a third vehicle.
When making overtaking the conductor did not see that in the left lane already circulating the vehicle driven by one of the victims, that receive the side impact, He left the road and was bandaging up a eucalyptus tree, a mais de 60 metros do local.
Francisco e Maria Palma Ramos, They were imprisoned and had immediate death. In a vehicle that ran a little behind, traveling one of the couple's children, with his wife, who gave the warning to the authorities.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
