The court appointed debate in the case of resonant road accident in the KharkivPhoto: newsroom.kh.ua

During the legal debate will be the prosecutors, the victims, and then the lawyers

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In a high profile case about a fatal accident in Kharkiv the court appointed debate. About it reports UKRINFORM.

This decision was made by the Kiev regional court which refused the lawyer of one of participants of road accident Dronova in re disqualification of four judges and appointed debate on 6 Feb.

At the meeting on 30 January was attended by both defendants Elena Zaitsev and Gennady drones, together with prosecutors, lawyers, victims and four experts who carried out technical examination. They are unable to determine the exact speed of the car Zaitseva at the time of the accident.

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“The court has considered the petition of Sergey Perepelitsa, the lawyer accused Gennady Dronova on the re – allotment of these experts in their presence. During the interrogation, each of the experts named in the motion to dismiss is unfounded, so as to establish the actual speed of the car Lexus according to the formula given photos and video recording failed and that the experts from the Dnieper, which determined that speed 106 km/h – not experts. As a result, the court dismissed the recusal of experts” – said in court.

Asked by the judge Popras, each of the participants replied that he was ready to debate. It is expected that the debate will be made by the prosecutors, the victims, and then the lawyers. This process may take more than one day. At the end of the word gives two accused.

A decision on sentence will be made in the deliberation room.

As previously reported by the Focus:

  • The fatal accident took place in Kharkiv on 18 October 2017. SUV Lexus RX 350, at the wheel which was 20-summer Elena Zaitseva, collided with the Volkswagen Touareg and rammed the crowd of people.
  • As a result of road accident five people died on the spot, another six were hospitalized. One of the victims later died in hospital.
  • At a recent court hearing on the case of an accident, the psychiatrist said that the body Zaitseva was opiates, but at the time of the accident she was sober.