“Son: ”I found my dad dead in the ditch””
“Jan Rodling, 74, was driven to death by the drunk driver.”
“the 74-year-old Jan Rodling run death of a notorious drunk driver when he was out riding.”
“Three months after serving a jail sentence, drove the man alcohol again. “
“– the Punishment should be like, no fucking spoon-feeding, ” says the son, Inge Rodling. “
“One evening in september 2012 came the phone call. It was Inge Rodlings daughter called and told me that his dad has been hit and that he was dead.”
” Jan ”Gaffe” Rodling was my father, grandfather and great-grandfather. “
“– No one is prepared for that kind of information, I could not believe it was true. It was sudden, I was like in a vacuum, ” says the son, Inge Rodling, 61.”
“The 74-year-old Jan had left the house in Rutvik, Luleå for a bike ride along the road to Gammelstad. He had one of his sons dog. At 18, a few kilometres from home, mowed down by a car at high speed. According to police, the collision violent, and he died immediately. “
“the Driver took off but after a large polispådrag could the man, a 42-year-old Luleåbo, arrested. He was estimated to have at least 0,67 per mille of alcohol in the blood in the accident. He had also taken amphetamines. “
“a Notorious drunk driver.”
“the Driver was previously known by the police as a notorious drunk driver with alcohol and drug problems. The last few years, the man has been convicted several times and served a prison sentence for, among other things, drunk driving, negligence of traffic and drug offences. In 2010, he was sentenced for aggravated drunken driving and unlawful driving on three separate occasions and just over a month before the fatal accident he had been driving alcohol. In addition, he lacked a license.”
“In the interrogations by the police denied the man to the crime and said that he had been dazzled by the sun, and that he thought he hit a dog. “
“– Oddly enough, I felt not hatred but felt rather sorry for him. But when I saw him for the first time, in the right, he was not for what he had done. He should have been more resolute than that, it was cowardly. Then I felt anger, ” says Inge Rodling.”
“I found dad in the ditch””
“Aftonbladet talking on the phone with another of jan’s sons, who do not want to be named. For him, the time after the accident has been particularly painful.nPappa Jan used to take care of his dog Nikita, a crossbreed between the plus and gråhund, every day while he was at work.”
“The current day had the son been up in the woods and on the way home, he passed the site of the accident shortly after it occurred. He stopped and met a woman who witnessed the event. “
“– she said She had taken care of the man’s dog. I saw that someone was in the ditch… And when I looked down I saw that it was my dog and I saw our dads precious volvo cap on the way. Then I understood that it was he who lay there.”
“He went down to the ditch. Just before the rescue teams reached to the place he found his dad’s livslösa body.”
“– You will be in shock, it was a thousand thoughts. I took the pulse of him, but understood that he was already dead.”
“the Son sat with dad Jan until the medics took care of the body. In the car it less than one mile between the site of the accident, the home and home went the son to call around to the family to tell what had happened. n– It has been tough, damn tough. I’ll never forget how he looked, ” he says.”
“of Alcohol three months later”
“the Man was sentenced to prison for 2 years and 3 months. At the end of september 2014, had the man served his prison sentence for aggravated involuntary manslaughter, drunken driving and unauthorized deviation from the accident scene. Three months later he drove alcohol again.”
“After the fatal accident, he has been convicted of 26 cases of illegal driving and eleven cases of drunken driving. “
“– He only got two years for having killed our father, it was far too low, says one of the Jan Rodlings sons. “
“– the Punishment should be hard. It must feel like, no fucking spoon-feeding. It’s supposed to feel that you have done something that is not right, ” says Inge Rodling. “
“”the Sentence felt like a taunt””
“jan’s granddaughter Malin Palmqvist, 38, says that grandpa Jan ”Gaffe” Rodlings home in Rutvik was as a focal point for the family. “
“– Man could be popping up in season and out of season, ” she says. “
“In the judgment is that the method during probation estimates that there was a lack of appropriate options for the notorious rattfylleristen that drove him to death, and have not proposed probation as a penalty. “
” I thought the penalty was as a mockery against us. It felt like my grandfather’s life was not worth anything. It is too easy to get away and the scale of punishment if you run out of alcohol should be raised, ” says Malin Palmqvist. “
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