Małdyty, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. A drunk bus driver with a driving ban hit a family with a child. He will not be arrested

The accident occurred on Monday, April 1, in Małdyty. Sergeant Paulina Śliwińska from the District Police Headquarters in Ostróda reported that a 27-year-old man driving a Fiat bus on a straight section of the road lost control of the vehicle, hit a tree, drove into the opposite lane and drove onto the sidewalk, where he hit a family with a 5-year-old child. .

The boy was transported by helicopter to the hospital, and the parents – by ambulance. Their life is not in danger.

On the evening of the accident, the parents left the hospital, but the boy with major contusions stayed there a little longer.

– I just heard that something was coming towards us very quickly. I turned around instinctively and saw the car hit the tree it had bounced off. I wanted to save my son, but I couldn't do anything – said the child's father in an interview with TVN24.

The bus driver smelled of alcohol. The man refused a breathalyzer test. The police took him to hospital for a blood test and then to police custody. The result showed almost two per mille of alcohol. The man was driving despite a court ban on driving any motor vehicles.

The prosecutor's office wanted him in temporary custody.

Prosecutor Ewa Ziębka, spokeswoman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Elbląg, announced on Wednesday that the District Court in Elbląg did not accept the prosecutor's complaint against the decision of the District Court in Ostróda to refuse to apply pre-trial detention and upheld this decision.

– The District Court indicated that, in its opinion, the District Court making the decision in this case correctly assessed all the evidence collected in the case in terms of the need to apply a preventive measure in the form of pre-trial detention. The court assumed that the collected evidence (largely already secured) indicates a high probability that the suspect had committed the alleged acts, which will continue to be verified during the proceedings, the prosecutor emphasized.

She added that the District Court in Elbląg pointed out that preventive measures are applied in the course of proceedings only in order to secure the proper course of the proceedings, in particular when there is a risk of the suspect escaping or hiding or there is a justified fear that the suspect will incite the confession. false testimony or otherwise unlawfully obstructed criminal proceedings.

The court indicated that the suspect's whereabouts were known and no indications or evidence had been disclosed that the suspect had undertaken the above-mentioned actions, although a month had passed since the incident). – Pre-trial detention is the strictest, isolating preventive measure, used exceptionally and cannot replace or anticipate a possible future sentence of imprisonment – added prosecutor Ewa Ziębka.