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Moers: An uninvolved woman was killed in an accident during an illegal car race in April 2019
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The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has lifted the life sentence for the main defendant after a fatal car race.
The matter must now be renegotiated, as the district court in Kleve announced.
The accident occurred in Moers in April 2019.
According to the court, two men were involved in a prohibited race.
The main defendant, who was 22 years old at the time of the crime, raced through a 50 km / h residential area in a 600 hp car on Easter Monday evening, according to the prosecution.
When an innocent woman came out of a side street with her small car, the man could no longer brake and rammed the woman's car violently.
The woman died of brain damage as a result of the impact, according to the court.
The defendant did not take care of the seriously injured person at the scene of the accident, but fled.
The district court of Kleve sentenced the driver, who did not have a driver's license, to life imprisonment for murder in February last year.
On the other hand, the man went into revision.
The BGH now referred to a statement by the defendant that he had been traveling on a clearly visible priority road and therefore trusted that there would be no accident.
The court did not sufficiently appreciate this statement in its deliberations on a conditional offense.
The second defendant and opponent in the race had been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
This penalty has now been confirmed by the BGH.
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