Drunk driver sentenced for road deaths

'I would have liked to have said sorry to the family. But they are not here. It is how to set it.'

this was the last word from the 24-year-old Max Binger, before he was sentenced to three years in prison for having been the cause of a 28-year-old woman's tragic death after a frontalulykke on the road Rødhøj by Asnas 14. February of this year.

The 24-year-old mechanic and father of a daughter, received this morning the judgment of the Court of Holbæk in an almost yawning empty courtroom, where alone it was his own family members who had come.

In advance, he had recognised all the circumstances of the serious charges were directed against him. He has now been convicted of having a bac of at least 1.2, when he at 18.30 chose to leave the tavern Office in Asnas to put themselves into his BMW 523 and run towards his home.

At the time, he had been drinking since 12: 30. First, a couple of beers at his workplace and since at the inn, where he admitted to have drunk four beers, an irish coffee and 14-15 small shots.

Shortly after being run out of Asnas, he chose in buldermørke to press on the throttle and overtake at the foot of a hill. At the same moment an oncoming car over the brow. A bilinspektør has estimated that both cars drove about 80 km/h when the head-on collision happened.

A week after the accident, organized the citizens of Asnas a torchlight procession in honor of the deceased woman and her family. Photo: Per Rasmussen

the oncoming car sat the 28-year-old, along with her husband and one-year-old son. The woman was killed on the spot, while the little child broke a nakkehvirvel. The spouse broke his left knee cap, damaged spleen, got a hole in the pleura as well as sustaining the depressed ribs and the concussion.

After the accident chose the man to leave the scene of the accident by going across a field. He told the court that he did not even think, and that he was not wondered, that there probably was seriously injured in the other car.

He contacted a friend who came and picked him up. Later contacted his friend, a lawyer, and it was agreed that the police would be waiting for him in the emergency department at Holbæk Hospital.

the Day after, the 24-year-old imprisoned in a grundlovsforhør of manslaughter.

It emerged in court that Max Binger a few years ago has been banned from driving in a short period of time. Then he got a fine of 6.500 dollars for drink-driving with a bac of 1.5.

in addition to fængselsstraffen the 24-year-old has been banned from driving for 10 years.

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