Collision Experts believe Bjørkelangen-driver had a clear view – VG

With a speed of around 50 km / h or more shall the accused riding on and killed the two girls.

Sara Christiane Holmedahl Sandmark (13) and Tiril Alette Huser Wave (11) were injured while they were out on tour medhest carriage along the county road 229, east of Bjørkelangen Sea, January 11 last year. They died later at the hospital.

Friday starts trial against motorist in Lower Romerike court. The man in the late 40s is accused of negligently bildrap.

Christian Lundin, who is counsel for the deceased Saras family, told VG that the bereaved experience matter as a great burden.

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– There has been a significant additional burden that the defendant in approximately 15 months have not been willing to acknowledge something anytime. The bereaved looks reaches the case being conducted although it becomes very difficult for them, says Lundin.

The defendant denies guilt after the indictment, but acknowledge that it was he who drove the car. He has police interrogation explained that he remembers very little.

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Disqualification Drama

– He remembers nothing. He is sorry that he has no memory of what happened, says the man lawyer, Gunhild Lærum, VG.

Since the accident occurred, the court, by disqualification reasons, appointed two different collision experts, Erik Aanerud and Arvid Aakre.

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They have conducted investigations scene, and written each report where they have calculated including distances and speed.

MANY MET UP: Horses transported in January last year stretcher Sara Christiane Holmedahl Sandmark from Bjørkelangen school, where she was a student, to Bjørkelangen church, where she was buried. Photo: Heiko Junge , NTB scanpix

Possible dodge

VG know the main features of the two independent reports.

** Aanerud believe the driver had an unobstructed view of the horse and buggy as the two girls sat ii more than ten seconds. Aakre states on its part that the defendant had an unobstructed view of 500 meters and well over 20 seconds. Both believe that the driver has had ample time in which to deal with the horse and wagon.

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** Aanerud has estimated vehicle speed collision to between 57 and 63 km / h. Aakre suggests that the car may have had a speed of 50 km / h, based on the information he had.

DEFENDER: Attorney Gunhild Lærum.

Photo: Roger Neumann , VG

** The two collision experts agree that the defendant could made an evasive maneuver to the right and out of the trench, with only material damage as a result. According Aanerud and Aakre would evasive action to the left have resulted in a frontal collision with the oncoming car.

– Will have great significance

Police Attorney Kare Kalvå, who will represent the prosecution under trial, would not comment on the contents of the two reports.

– But there will always be such that when the defendant does not have much to contribute, as will an expert report of great importance, says Kalvå.

– There is a tension torque how much he will be able to contribute during the main hearing.

Kalvå points out that there are examples of defendants who have come with more details during his testimony in court than in police interrogation .

Two reconstructions

Erik Aanerud, who along with a colleague driver engineering firm Reconstructing, was appointed as expert Lower Romerike court scant two weeks after the accident. A few weeks after the accident, it was also arranged a reconstruction.

He was earlier this year declared incompetent by the court because of aid attorneys in the case, Christian Lundin, has a relation to a person in AANERUD family.

The appeal of deceased Saras family, Lundin represent, did not succeed either in the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court. Aanerud shall nevertheless explain about their findings during the trial, which called party appointed witness.

Already when the first judicial authority stated that Aanerud was incompetent, the collision expert Arvid Aakre from NTNU in Trondheim appointed a new expert.

After a new reconstruction of the accident in March this year, could also Aakre finalize its report. He meets like Aanerud in court.

– We have no problem with it, the experts write. They take their precautions and the assumptions it is surely right, says defender Lærum.