Three deaths in frontal crash with taxi car on E4 taxi drivers are prosecuted

It was the night of October 27 that, according to the prosecutor, the taxi must have made an illegal left turn and went up against the traffic at the E4 on the Gnistarondellen. The driver should then have driven north in a southbound lane towards the next roundabout, the Kumlarondellen. A total of about 750-800 meters, according to the police investigation. There the trip stopped. The taxi frontal crashed with a passenger car. Three people, one woman and two men, died as a result of the accident. A man was also badly injured.

The taxi driver, who is in his 50s, is now charged with gross negligence for the death of another, gross negligence in traffic and gross negligence for bodily injury. According to the prosecutor, he has committed the crimes through "negligence".

For the trial, a witness should be called who traveled by taxi from Stockholm to Uppsala that evening. According to the person released before the accident, the taxi driver showed "signs of fatigue".

The accused man has refused a crime in interrogation.

- He denies crime and we think the investigation is quite thin and peculiar in what is alleged. We will deal with it in the trial and probably present our own evidence, says his defense lawyer Kjell Nordenås.

Your client should have driven on the wrong side of the road?

- We think that is not the case. You can look at photos in the police investigation.

Prosecutor Mia Sjöstedt, who held in the preliminary investigation, does not believe that the photographs from the accident site are significant.

- The photographs show nothing in my opinion after the cars frontal crashed with each other and moved.

The most important evidence that the taxi driver is the culprit behind the accident is technical equipment in the taxi:

- Police technicians were looking for the taxi's camera. Then the GPS was found which became a turn in the investigation as it shows how the taxi was moving.

At the time of the accident, the taxi driver was alone in the car. There were four people in the passenger car, one of whom survived. However, he has not been able to recount what happened, according to the prosecutor.

Attorney Angelica Dipeders represents the man who survived the crash and the survivors of the perished. She writes in an email that:

"It is, after all, an extremely tragic event with the worst possible outcome, which means both a great deal of grief and a great suffering for my principals."

It is not decided when the trial will take place.