The driver is charged with "causing danger to another" after he let go of the woman by the road instead of following her to the door. The woman was found the day after dead in the snow. fifteen feet from its front door.

The question for the district court to decide is whether it was the driver's, and ultimately the taxi company's, responsibility to ensure that the woman entered her home. The prosecutor believes that they have failed in their responsibility. No one is thus charged with causing her death.

Told about the run

When the driver took his seat in the witness box, he told me the other day he was driving the woman. He picked her up in Härnösand where she arrived by bus. During the trip to Kramfors, the woman talked on the phone and the driver noted that the weather was getting better as was the road situation.

"It was not snowing and did not blow," said the driver, when we came to the yard, said the woman does not drive into my yard. Stay here.

Denied help

Before going out to open the door, the woman explained how he would drive to turn around the car. The driver says he was looking at the house, the window lights were on. The driver again asked if she needed help. She refused. The driver felt the mission was complete when the woman said she did not need any help.

"Those who refuse and do not want help, we usually look to sometimes," said the driver during his testimony, but the woman felt so nervous that this time he did not stop to see how it went. He also did not believe that the weather conditions meant that he had to stop and see how things were going. The weather was good.

The driver is shown on a map how far he went with the woman from the road. He says it was 20 meters to the door from the place he left the woman.

The customer decides

We help everyone from door to door, even if it is not a sick trip. But if we offer help and they say no, then we cannot force them, says the driver. He believes that it is the customer who decides, even if according to agreement, they should have door-to-door assistance.