18-year-old Tark Kurd has been arrested again and released on the grounds that the information was already with the police • Police: "turned the road into a private experimental field"
The scene of the accident on Route 443 // Photo: ZAKA
Police request to extend the arrest of Tariq Kurd, who is suspected of causing the fatal accident on Highway 443, was denied Friday in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court. The court refused to extend the driver's arrest and even ordered him released on the grounds that "the evidence of speeding and head-on-the-road driving was already known to the police."
Earlier today, and after he was released from custody, police sought to extend the arrest of driver Tark Kurd, the suspect who caused an accident on Route 443 in which Tzipi and Noam Rimmel were killed and seriously injured Ephraim, the father of the family, and Ithi, the eldest son.
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Recall, after the offending driver was examined, and found not to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the accident, the traffic magistrate ordered Thursday (Thursday) to release the 18-year-old driver from the village due north of Jerusalem.
Photo: MDA spokeswomen
During a hearing today, the police representative said: "Respondent turned the road into his private field of experimentation to test vehicles he bought, speeding his car at insane speeds while endangering passengers on the road. The trip was for the purpose of examining a vehicle. We know this because he told people ". The police representative told the judge that this information was reinforced by the new testimony received by police after he was released yesterday. He added: "Before embarking on the same fatal road trial that ended with the death of a mother and her daughter, he met his friends ...". Police said they were trying to locate the same friends to collect testimony from them as well, adding, referring to Kard's own testimony: "He himself admits that he turned the road into an experimental field and it was reinforced only yesterday."
The additional testimony, which reinforces the police's claim about the road riot. The testimony of an IPS man who was standing on the watch tower in Ofer Prison, and saw the incident and the events that led to it. The police representative claimed in the hearing that this testimony reinforces the concern for the driver's danger. "This is not a normal accident. Accidents happen unfortunately if severe, but here it is a driver who consciously accelerated speed and caused people's death. This is not an ordinary accident, it is another event. ”As mentioned, despite the new testimony and fear of danger, the court decided not to extend Kard's arrest.
Following the heavy disaster that befell the Rimmel family, a mass financing project was established at the Jgive site, led by residents in Neve Tzuf, together with the "Man of Righteous One", so that the family can finance the rehabilitation project expected of them. For more information and donations to the Rimmel family, search for "a righteous man" on the Jgive website.
