display
Ingolstadt (dpa) - A 23-year-old has to answer before the Ingolstadt district court from Wednesday for manslaughter by frenzy on the motorway.
In October 2019, the man is said to have raced in his highly motorized vehicle in the fast lane at Manching near Ingolstadt at well over 200 kilometers per hour in a car in front.
The 22-year-old driver of the rammed car had no chance of survival and died on the spot.
A process for this had already started last year.
In the course of the proceedings, however, one of the parties involved fell out for a long time, so the process had to be discontinued.
Now the criminal proceedings start all over again.
Ten days of negotiations are planned until the end of March.
The accused German has to answer for manslaughter and for a prohibited motor vehicle race.
In the process at that time, he had admitted that he had rammed the other car on the A9.
He emphasized his deep regret over the death of the 22-year-old.
display
His defense lawyers should be in the new process in particular to rebut the legal allegations in order to achieve a milder sentence.
Because in the past, similar traffic offenses were often only charged as negligent homicide in the local courts.
But the public prosecutor's offices have been following a harder line for several years.
Just a few days ago, a trial for the murder of a 35-year-old speedster who had killed a young person while fleeing a police check had started in Munich.
In addition, since 2017, illegal car races have been sanctioned more heavily as a criminal offense.
According to the paragraph created at the time, a prohibited race is not only defined as a competition between two or more drivers on public roads.
Even a driver who is traveling alone with his car "in order to achieve the highest possible speed" can be sentenced.
If another person dies, they face up to ten years imprisonment just because of the speeding paragraph.
Illegal car racing in the criminal code