- During this accident on January 27, the driver had hit the car of a mother who was traveling in the opposite lane, while overtaking a blind van.
- The accused fled the scene and the accident, before being arrested three months later by the gendarmes.
- Convicted multiple times for traffic offenses, the man was sentenced to 30 months in prison after the prosecutor had requested 5 years.
Thirty months in prison and the ban on driving licenses for one year. This is the sentence which was given on Thursday to a 39-year-old man, a recidivist reckless driver who was tried by the Toulouse criminal court for hitting the car of a 41-year-old woman on January 27 in Cépet, north of Toulouse. .
The victim, Vanessa, was returning from work when she crossed paths with this mechanic, already convicted six times in recent years for numerous road crimes. The firefighters had taken three hours to get the victim out of his vehicle. Today, this mother of three is still in a wheelchair and has been doing physiotherapy and surgical operations since the accident.
Three months on the run
After the tragedy, the accused stopped to see the victim's condition, before fleeing on foot after ten minutes. The gendarmes of Saint-Jory, in charge of the investigation, took three months to arrest him, after four attempts. This resident Villematier, father of three children, drove a powerful BMW, whose steering wheel was on the right, and insured in the name of a blind man, without license. He crossed a solid line to overtake a vehicle and crashed into Vanessa's Twingo, in the opposite lane.
During the hearing Thursday, the accused, who admitted never having passed the license, tried to minimize his responsibility in the accident. “I was behind this lightly moving van, at 25 km / h and at the exit of the village of Cépet, I wanted to overtake it but it accelerated when I got up to its door. I failed [to overtake] and crashed into the other car. I misjudged my speed and distance, ”said the 30-something man with a left arm handicap after a motorcycle accident.
The maximum sentence required
The driver justified his escape and his run by the need to leave "things to his children, knowing that he was going to go to jail". Explanations which did not convince the lawyer of Vanessa, pointing "the lack of otherness of this man" for the victim. "How is it that such a person drives?" My client was in a coma and had her life prognosis engaged following the accident. Today, she cannot have coffee without the help of her children. Does he have to kill someone so that he can one day stop? Rebelled Kamel Benamghar.
The prosecutor requested five years in prison, the maximum sentence, "to prevent him from doing harm." The criminal court finally sentenced him to 30 months in prison, with continued detention. "He did not leave her for dead alone in a ravine, he saw that other motorists were giving the alert and he panicked when he heard the sirens, justifies Sarah Nabet-Claverie, counsel for the accused. There is enough to condemn him without aggravating circumstances. "
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