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Ingolstadt district court: judgment against a speeder
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The Ingolstadt district court sentenced a 24-year-old to three years and six months' imprisonment for a fatal accident at extremely high speed.
The man had rammed another driver from behind in the fast lane of the A9 with his sports car and killed him.
The 22-year-old at the wheel of the other car died on the spot.
The court found the defendants guilty of fatal prohibited motor vehicle racing.
Originally, the 24-year-old was also charged with manslaughter.
But the so-called conditional killing resolution could not be proven, said the presiding judge.
That is why this accusation was dropped.
The defendant had tuned his sports car to 575 hp and a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour and should not have driven such a racing car on public roads.
At the scene of the accident, he was allowed to drive a maximum of 100 km / h in the accident in October 2019, in fact he was traveling at 232 kilometers per hour.
The public prosecutor's office had demanded eight years' imprisonment for the speeder, the defense attorney an acquittal.
The man was convicted of the paragraph against illegal car racing created in 2017.
bbr / dpa
