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The verdict is expected in the regional court in the trial surrounding a car accident in Frankfurt with a child killed. (Symbolic image) © Arne Dedert/dpa
The man is said to have driven his car through Frankfurt with around two per mille of alcohol in his blood, with children sitting in the front passenger seat and the back seat. One of them did not survive the journey.
Frankfurt/Main – The verdict is expected to be announced today (9:00 a.m.) in the regional court in the trial surrounding a car accident in Frankfurt with a child killed. In the accident in June 2023, a seven-year-old was thrown from the car and fatally injured; his eleven-year-old half-brother and the driver survived seriously injured.
The public prosecutor’s office accuses the driver of, among other things, abduction of minors resulting in death and drunk driving. The now 56-year-old is said to have consumed between 1.85 and 2.17 per mille of alcohol and took the two children with him illegally. The then eleven-year-old is his son, but his mother has sole custody; the seven-year-old who was killed was his half-brother.
Near the palm garden, the car left the road, hit a tree and overturned. None of the occupants were said to have been wearing seatbelts. The seven-year-old was thrown out of the car and the edge of the car’s roof hit him in the head. He died about an hour later in the hospital.
At the start of the trial, the 56-year-old said he had hardly any memories of the accident. He saw one of the boys grab the steering wheel. dpa
