On Thursday morning, the poor condition of the roads in Saint-Martin was again at the heart of the debates in a trial relating to a fatal traffic accident. CL, a 59-year-old woman, was summoned before the local court of Saint-Martin for manslaughter by a driver of a land motor vehicle; in other words, he is accused of having caused the death of an individual in an accident that he allegedly caused.
The facts date back to April 29, 2019. At around 21:XNUMX p.m., CL was driving his car on the main road in Grand Case when, suddenly, a scooter struck the left side of his vehicle. The pilot loses control of his machine and crashes into the wall of a hotel residence. He died a few minutes later. The autopsy will reveal that he succumbed to a massive hemorrhage.
The young man's mother is heard by the gendarmes. During her hearing, she indicated “wanting to want” to file a complaint against the community that she considers responsible for the accident which caused the death of her son. She blames the COM for the poor condition of the road on this section.
The investigation revealed that the driver of the car wanted to avoid a trench that was not filled in on the right side of the road, that she then swerved slightly to her left and did not see the biker arriving. was in his blind spot. She would have thus committed a fault of inattention, which is why she is, in the end, prosecuted for manslaughter. But during the investigation of the case at the hearing, its responsibility is gradually eliminated.
The accident was entirely filmed by the CCTV cameras of the hotel residence in front of which the accident took place. The images show that the car drives at low speed unlike the helmeted pilot of the two-wheeler, its high speed will be confirmed by witnesses. He was passing the cars when he struck CL's rearview mirror, which had shifted slightly to the left to avoid the trench. “As he was driving very fast, he was unbalanced,” notes the deputy prosecutor. "On the other hand, I do not see in the images that CL's vehicle crossed the center line of the road while trying to avoid the trench," the court noted.
In his indictment, the vice-prosecutor requested the release of CL because his responsibility has not been demonstrated. After deliberation, the court released CL who was still in a very emotional state at the hearing.
Finally, the prosecution indicated that it was not aware of the complaint from the mother of the pilot (who has since died) against the Collectivity and the company carrying out the work. (soualiagapost.com)
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