The accused had both too much alcohol in his blood and too high a speed when he around 21 o’clock in Vesterbro hit another car that was about to make a U-turn.
– It jumps right out in front of me, where I have almost no time to react, says the 21-year-old in the Court in Frederiksberg and adds:
– I do not feel that this accident is my fault.
However, he admits that it was wrong to drive after he had had cocktails at a café in Østerbro. The per mille was measured at 1.09 almost two hours later.
– That with alcohol was not the plan that night, and so I still chose to drive because I did not feel that I was drunk, he says.
In addition to alcohol, he is also accused of driving with an inactive ABS braking system. But he refuses to know, and he explains that the ABS lamp did not shine on the dashboard of the car.
In the Vesterbro accident, one of the two suffered severely injured skull fractures, while the other was in a critical coma for five weeks.
After the accident, the 21-year-old should have been brought to justice. But the case initially awaited that it should be merged with some other matters he was accused of.
But the case apparently stranded on the prosecution’s table. It lay still, even though the defender sent reminders. Prosecutor Kristian Kirk himself has called the process unsatisfactory and apologized.
On October 28, 2020, the case had still not come to court. The 21-year-old got behind the wheel – without a driving license – and drove around 4 pm into a T-junction on Peter Bangs Vej in Valby.
He turned neither right nor left, but drove right over and into a five-year-old girl and her mother who were on the sidewalk, and further into a wall. The girl died on the spot and her mother was injured.
According to police, the 21-year-old was under the influence of cocaine and laughing gas. He had inhaled a large can of 600 grams of laughing gas earlier in the day, but he denies having taken it right up to the drive and that he was affected by it.
Unlike the accident in Vesterbro, he ran away after the accident in Valby.
He later took cocaine but had not taken it up to the accident, he has explained. The day after the accident, he was arrested, and here samples showed that he had cocaine in his blood.
The prosecution is expected to go after a sentence of at least four years in prison or higher. The trial continues Monday and runs over several days.