The Maldonado prosecutor Jorge Vaz will request the indictment of the driver who survived the fatal accident on the Arrayanes de Maldonado road, for a complex crime of culpable homicide qualified by the result of two deaths, those of Agustín Cajtak and Lola Ferréres Sánchez, both 18 years old.
According to the ID to which The Observer agreed, Maldonado judge Sylvia García Noroya set the hearing for April 20, in which the 22-year-old driver of the Volkswagen Golf must appear with his defense.
The prosecutor was waiting for the road accident examination, the last of the reports he needed to issue a ruling on the responsibilities of the case.
As reported The Observer, He had received the spirometry of both the victims and the driver who survived. In that case, the report from the Chemistry and Pharmacology laboratory of the Forensic Technical Institute concluded that the driver had 0.83 grams of alcohol in his blood.
The report also detected the presence of tramadol in the blood, an analgesic that is taken for severe pain, although it is clarified that it was found in therapeutic doses, which implies that it may have been indicated.
In the case of Cajtak and Ferreres, the toxicological examination concluded that there were no traces of alcohol or drugs in the blood of either of them.
Cajtak and Ferreres, who were dating, were traveling in a Volkswagen Gol and were returning from a party in La Rinconada de Piriápolis when they collided with the Volkswagen Golf that ended up on top of the Gol.
According to the witness who was traveling as a passenger in the Golf with the driver and another young man, they were at a party in Punta del Este and were going to another party in Piriápolis. Since the other companion felt bad, they turned around towards Punta del Esta to leave him at home. After leaving him, they resumed the trip to Piriápolis and it was on that stretch that the crash occurred.
The 24-year-old girl stated that when the accident occurred, she was talking on the phone with a friend and the only thing she remembered from the moment was that the driver “swerved a few times.” He added that he woke up the following Tuesday in the hospital. Both the driver and his 24-year-old passenger suffered serious injuries.
The defender of the accused, Ignacio Durán, asked the prosecutor’s office to carry out investigations on a third vehicle that was at the scene of the accident, a Volkswagen Nivus truck.
Since the prosecutor’s office rejected it, he finally conducted the private examination and handed it over. The report prepared by prevention technician Claudia Moreno concluded that the Nivus “had an active and decisive participation in the rotation and final displacement of the Volkswagen Gol.”
The technician opined that “the Nivus-Gol impact occurred perpendicularly on the rear right side of the Gol” and that the Nivus “was clearly traveling at a considerable speed to effect movement and deformation on the VW Gol, clearing it towards the natural strip.”
He added that “the observed dynamics are compatible with an invasion of the opposite path by the Volkswagen Nivus.”
“Only the Prosecutor’s Office, in a private manner, is the one that can decide who is accused in a case,” prosecutor Vaz had said in a hearing that took place in December to reject requesting that evidence, and the judge agreed with him.
