A woman with a two-year-old child in a pram was passing through a passage in Lublin. She was hit by a delivery truck whose driver was reversing. Nothing happened to the child. The woman was taken to the hospital in serious condition, where she died. The prosecutor’s office appealed against the court’s decision not to pre-trial detention against the driver. He faces up to 12 years in prison.
Everything happened on Wednesday (February 15) around 1:30 p.m. next to one of the blocks at ul. Szeligowski in Lublin.
– According to the preliminary findings of the police, the driver of the delivery car, when reversing, hit a woman with a two-year-old child on the pedestrian crossing – Commissioner Kamil Gołębiowski told us on Friday (February 17). from the Municipal Police Headquarters in Lublin.
He told paramedics that she fell on the roadway because she fainted
As he described, when the ambulance arrived, the driver told the rescuers that the woman had fainted and fell on the road.
– The child was fastened in the stroller. Nothing happened to him. The woman was injured and taken to the hospital in a serious condition, Gołębiowski reported.
Dead
On Monday (February 28), the head of the Lublin Północ District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin, Jarosław Warszawski, told the Polish Press Agency that the woman had died and her body would be subjected to an autopsy that would “help determine the course of events”.
– The section is to show the mechanism of the injuries: how they were caused, what was their type and nature – said Warszawski, specifying that it will be crucial to determine whether the woman was hit by a car or fell herself.
He stipulated that investigators interviewed witnesses and secured monitoring from the scene, but “the facts are not easy to assess”.
The child’s father addressed the matter on Twitter
Shortly after the accident, a Lublin doctor, Jakub Kosikowski, referred to the case on Twitter, who wrote that the hit woman is his child’s nanny and is fighting for her life in the hospital.
– I was not going to comment on this, but changed my mind when I read some comments online that suggested that the babysitter got under the wheels of the vehicle. It’s not true. I saw it with my own eyes on the surveillance video – he said on February 17 in an interview with tvn24.pl.
I wasn’t supposed to write, but the press is writing and my blood is flooded
A driver of dubious sobriety in reverse swept my son from the aisle with the babysitter. He started when they were in the middle of the aisle, when they entered he stood
The son is ok, the belts and the stroller saved his life, Nanny is fighting for her life
Guys – their fault
— Jakub Kosikowski (@kosik_md) February 16, 2023
As he said, he asked the administration of the block to provide the recording, because the injuries suffered by the nanny and the condition of the wheelchair did not agree with his theory that the woman fainted and fell on the road.
“After reviewing the surveillance video, I called the police. It was two hours after the accident, he described.
The suspect faces up to 12 years in prison
As he told us. Gołębiowski, it happened when the uniforms were already starting to conduct activities, after the driver of the car and the passenger reported to the command.
The prosecutor’s office charged 30-year-old Grzegorz M. with unintentional causing of the accident, which resulted in severe bodily harm, and also with fleeing from the scene of the accident. The suspect pleaded not guilty. He faces up to 12 years in prison.
Complaint against the decision of the court
On February 18, the court rejected the prosecutor’s request for the temporary arrest of Grzegorz M.
– The court considers that there are no grounds to assume that there was a runaway from the scene of the accident. It indicates that the suspect remained at the scene long after the incident, and then reported himself to the police unit to clarify the matter and leaving his data, said the spokesperson of the District Court in Lublin, Barbara Markowska, to the Polish Press Agency.
The prosecutor’s office appealed against the court’s decision.
Main photo source: Shutterstock, Twitter/@kosik_md