The driver sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for the crash … – Railway Market

At eight and a half years in prison sentenced a court in the Czech Republic, Polish lorry driver for causing the disaster Pendolino, which killed three people – gives the Radio Information Agency.

The crash occurred on July 22 in the village of Studenka in the Czech Republic. Pendolino train carrier Ceske Drahy (Czech Railways – CD) running in the direction of Prague collided with a Polish TIR system, which invaded the railway crossing at a red light, as seen in the film published on the internet from the collision.

As a result of the collision three people were killed. During the first meeting of the Pole he testified that he entered the intersection, because the dam was raised, and he did not see the red warning lights. Not pulled from the Tour, because the dam had already been abandoned.

According to the IAR pole for causing the crash of the Czech Pendolino heard a sentence of eight and a half years in prison. Besides imprisonment driver received a ten-year driving ban in the Czech Republic. The man threatened to ten years in prison, but the court took into account that so far the Pole was not punished.