Beernem is A 44-year-old driver is fully responsible for the fatal accident in which Jacques Derez (60) from Beernem to life came. The sixties was close to his home hit by a car on his bike and died on the spot. According to the driver, that the acquittal asked, was the accident due to a local ijsplek and there was talk of force majeure. The Bruges magistrate went there, however, does not in and referred among other things to the weather of the day before. “A director is in addition deemed at any time the control over the steering wheel to keep,” said the judge.

Three months of prison with deferment, 1.600 euro fine and a one month driving ban: that is the punishment that the Bruges magistrate, the 44-year-old Chris V. from Aalter imposes for the cause of a fatal traffic accident on december 15, 2017. Jacques Derez drove there that very morning on a bridge along the rue de l’etang in Beernem, when the fate near his home struck. The sixties was hit by a skidding vehicle and landed in the bushes. Aanrijder Chris V. started yourself with the resuscitation, but without result. Jacques died on the spot. During the previous session showed V. clearly his sympathy and regret to prove, but he asked anyway, the acquittal.