“I have children of my own and what she did, I have done a hundred times.” Master Robbie Dewaele looked in the mirror himself when he defended his 31-year-old client from Ingelmunster in West Flanders in the police court. The woman was distracted in Wielsbeke by her daughter in the back seat a year and a half ago, with dramatic consequences: a Polish trucker ended up in the water and drowned. But she was told today whether she will also receive a punishment for this.
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Woman (31) still receives punishment for accident in which trucker drowned in Wielsbeke: “Drama was the result of maternal reflex”
Bytaketonews
Jan 9, 2026