Maki Kolehmainen, known from the Aikakone band, was convicted of seriously endangering traffic safety.
Maki Kolehmainen has become known for the band Aikakone. Matti Matikainen
Musician Maki Kolehmainen56, was sentenced in early May in the Uusimaa District Court to a fine for grossly endangering traffic safety.
The verdict led to a situation where Kolehmainen accelerated his Jaguar-branded car very close to underage boys in April 2020.
The perpetrator of the case, the victim of the crime, was only a 15-year-old boy at the time of the incident. He said in court that he had been at Siuntio S-Market with his friends on the day of the incident.
His friend had coughed and Kolehmainen had said something about it. They had laughed with friends because the situation had been so special.
Kolehmais had a face mask, while boys did not. When the boys came out of the store, Kolehmainen, according to the boy, had shouted something after them and showed a middle finger. The boy said he looked back and bulged his muscles.
Kolehmainen was provocative, according to the boy, and there had been a shout-out in the situation. According to the boy, Kolehmainen had said that it was not worth fooling around with him.
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Maki Kolehmainen was fined for seriously endangering traffic safety. Eero Liesimaa
After that, the boy had left to walk out of the store with his friends.
According to the boy, Kolehmainen had driven after them to the parking lot and accelerated. The boy said he left to run when he noticed the car. According to the boy, Kolehmainen had wedged his car up the sidewalk in front of the boy. The boy said the car had been a meter or two away from him and a meter away from the wall of the house next door.
The boy had run back to the store, after which Kolehmainen had driven away. According to the boy, Kolehmainen had done so after provoking from a previous discussion.
Braking mark as proof
The story of the guy who was heard as a witness was similar to what the boy told. In addition, a video of the boy’s footprints after the situation was presented as written evidence. The recording revealed that the scene had a braking mark extending from the carriageway’s roadway over the curb to the sidewalk. Also on the sidewalk side, quite close to the wall of the house, a trace was visible.
Kolehmainen’s own story differed in many respects from the boys’ version. There was disagreement over, among other things, where everyone had shown the middle finger. According to Kolehmainen, he had been in the shop after three “kundi” had appeared to him and one had coughed straight ahead.
Kolehmainen said he had taken the pandemic situation seriously for personal reasons. According to Kolehmainen, he had seen the boys outside near the pillar, when he had said that next time they would not survive so easily. The boy had started shouting “illegal threat” and pointing his middle finger.
Maki Kolehmainen was provoked by the teenage boy’s behavior. Jussi Eskola
Kolehmainen said he had left to drive towards the pharmacy and had been driving next to the boys in the parking lot to discuss the matter. He had accelerated, but the trip was short, so the car hadn’t had time to accelerate very much.
He said he was driving next to the curb, staying on the side of the road. He said the purpose was to discuss the boys ’behavior in the trade. Kolehmainen denied driving over the cobblestone that separated the sidewalk because the front spoiler of his Jaguar-branded car was so low that it would have collapsed if he had driven over the curb.
The district court found it unbelievable
The district court found that strong oral and written evidence in support of the plaintiff’s report had been presented in support of the charge. The district court did not find credible Kolehmainen’s argument that it was in no way possible for his car to cross the curb of the sidewalk, which looked quite normal in height, without the car’s front spoiler breaking apart.
Kolehmainen has to pay fines of more than 2,000 euros. Stefan Moberg
Kolehmainen had also said that the braking marks described by the applicant should have been present at the scene before the events in question. However, the district court found it quite unlikely that the alleged scene would have had the exact braking marks appropriate to the testimony of the plaintiff and witness.
The court held that Kolehmainen had acted as described in the indictment.
By law, he had driven his car, accelerating to the sidewalk very close to the plaintiff.
According to the court, the incident posed a serious danger and the situation was certainly very frightening for the minor concerned.
As a punishment, the court imposed an 80-day fine, which accrues EUR 2,960 in Kolehmainen’s income.
The verdict is not final, as Kolehmainen has expressed his dissatisfaction with it. The case is still pending before the Court of Appeal.
Iltalehti did not reach Kolehma to comment on his verdict.