Hulshout How precisely the accident happened with Dimitri Truyts (25) and Daisy Vermeulen (31) from Herenthout two years ago were killed? Also on the last day of his trial came, there is no clarity about. The witnesses contradict each other, and director Stijn Wouters can’t remember. He asks the acquittal.
The magistrates ‘ court in Turnhout last Thursday, the trial against Stijn Wouters (34), Tremelo in consideration. Wouters was for a fatal traffic accident on december 18, 2016 at the Booischotseweg in Hulshout.
He sat behind the wheel of a Volvo V40. With him in the car was a befriended couple. Dimitri Truyts (25) on the passagierszetel front, Daisy Vermeulen (31) on the back seat. It is certain that in Wouters at a certain moment of his lane is deviated. He tapped on the other lane a vehicle. His car began to swing and rammed another car.
Dimitri and Daisy survived the accident will not, Stijn Wouters itself ended up in a coma. He may be nothing of the accident to remember.
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The main question in the case is why Stijn Wouters of his lane is deviated. According to his lawyer he was surprised by a van that suddenly – without priority to be given – from a side street, the road opdraaide. Some of the witnesses had stated. But according to other witnesses, there was probably no van that such a maneuver was performed.
Because there is ambiguity, the public ministry is limited to what can be said. “The essence is that the first collision in the other lane happened. We don’t know at what speed they happened, but in the second collision, the speed according to the expert 71 miles per hour. We may assume that the speed at the first collision is even higher,” says prosecutor Luc Daeleman.
“I’m not saying that he as a criminal has worn on the road, but I imagine that questions his fitness to drive. Even in the assumption that there is indeed a van from a side street, the lane came to driving, he has not rightly judged.”
The prosecutor had, during a previous session already has a suspended sentence and an effective ban on driving advanced for the deadly accident. The lawyer of Stijn Wouters is going resolutely for the acquittal.
“The expert is not able to set the initial speed to determine. It is not because he is in the second collision 71 per hour reed, that he initially drove faster. Maybe he’s in the panic reaction or gas for a given”, says master Dirk Victor Bogaerts.
“Or he is the appropriate response has been, we know only if we know exactly what happened. But that is not the case here. Of all what the prosecution says, nothing is proven, and at least there is doubt. It is not because there are two dead, that there is necessarily a culprit must be found. Stijn Wouters is also a victim.”
