The woman from Nijmegen who drove a 14-year-old girl from Sint Anthonis at the end of last year with her garbage truck has certainly been in contact with justice three times before. In all cases she violated the road traffic law, partly because she was behind the wheel of a motor vehicle while she was forbidden.
In the fatal accident of 10 December, the 41-year-old driver of the garbage truck was under the influence of amphetamine. At the collision at the intersection of Stevensbeekseweg and the Rondveld in Sint Anthonis, 14-year-old Esmee Hoesen died. She died of her injuries at the scene of the accident. The Nijmegen drove through after the collision and later reported to the police. This Thursday she is in public for the first time in the court in Den Bosch.
It is a pro forma session in which the Public Prosecution Service will tell you exactly suspected. It will mean that the woman is accused of causing a fatal accident under the influence. It may also be referred to earlier lawsuits.
Already conviction in 2019
In August 2019, as far as is known, the Nijmegen suspect was convicted for the first time. Then the police judge in Den Bosch imposed a conditional denial of the driving authority of five months.
Five months later she lost the driver’s license for that period when she was again in front of the police judge in Den Bosch. She had to answer for the fact that she was behind the wheel on the Oeffeltseweg in Haps on October 22, 2019, although she had been denied the management of a motor vehicle. She also drove an invalid driver’s license.
She also received an 80 -hour work sentence from the police judge, half of which was conditional. Her three weeks in prison was also given the prospect if she did not comply with conditions within two years.
In the error during probation period
On February 24, 2022, the Nijmegse appeared on the mat at the police court in Arnhem. She had broken the Road Traffic Act on July 3, 2020. For this she received six weeks in jail, five of which were conditional with a probationary period of no less than three years. And during that probation, she went wrong again, because the fatal accident happened at the end of last year.
In February this year there was a reconstruction of the fatal accident. Should the driver of the garbage truck immediately realize that she was driving over the young cyclist? Or is it possible that she has not noticed anything, for example due to the movement of the car in the bend and the suspension? The police hope to get an answer to these questions on the basis of a reconstruction.
Due to the circumstances as accurately as possible, it must become clear to what extent the driver can be blamed for the accident. That will be the key question during the court case against the woman, who starts on Thursday afternoon. The substantive treatment will take place at the earliest next summer.
‘More drug users’
According to De Gelderlander, a few vehicles were investigated by agents at the waste company in Uden for which the woman worked for. A number of the controlled drivers were positively tested for the use of drugs. The parents of the killed girl would have been informed of this.
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