Suspended sentence for Toppenstedt driver. A father and a five-year-old boy died and eleven children were injured, some of them seriously.
“I am so sorry, I will feel the guilt for the rest of my life,” the defendant said in his last word. An expert submitted a new investigation after he was unable to establish beyond doubt how the accident occurred at the start of the trial. Finally, he ruled out a technical defect as the cause of the accident.