A 19-year-old man from Assen was given 120 hours of community service for causing a serious accident near Peest last year in June. He was also sentenced to three months’ juvenile detention and a twelve-month driving ban, both conditional.
The car ended up upside down in a meadow near Peest in the early morning. The suspect was driving the car. Three friends were in his car. The group had been driving around for hours. The 19-year-old did not have a driver’s license and was driving at far too high a speed. The car bounced over a speed bump on Hoofdstraat. The 19-year-old lost control of his car.
The co-driver suffered a broken upper arm. The judge finds that the 19-year-old drove very carelessly. “This could have been much more serious,” he said. The judge took into account the young age of the suspect. The teenager must report to the juvenile probation service and undergo treatment. The sentence broadly corresponds to the demand of the Public Prosecution Service.