Five years in prison including three years closed. This is the sentence pronounced Wednesday by the criminal court of Lyon against a mother, now aged 36 years.
On February 19, 2017 in Vaulx-en-Velin, the driver violently struck the vehicle of Séphora, a 23-year-old girl, who had just celebrated her birthday and who was about to return home with a youth worker. his handball club.
Telephone, speeding, burnt out light
The shock was of incredible violence, the noise of the collision such that the neighbors believed in an explosion. The victim could never be resuscitated. And the driver responsible for the accident is walking today on crutches. The blood alcohol tests showed that she was drunk that night. She was also speeding, made numerous phone calls to find her partner with whom she had argued, and had just burned a red light.
At the helm, the accused expressed deep regret, reports Le Progrès . "I am at fault at 3000%, I am forced to live with the guilt of the survivor but I am not a murderer," she said in tears before hearing his sentence.
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