Marseilles-to-Murcia coach tragedy 'caused by mentally-ill passenger'
Thursday, August 15, 2013 @ 5:32 PM
A EUROLINES coach crash in France which killed an Alicante woman was caused by a paranoid schizophrenic grabbing the wheel from the driver, investigations reveal.
The 29-year-old Ukrainian may not be considered criminally responsible, since the paranoid deliriums he suffers means he would not have known the nature and quality of his actions.
According to the prosecutor in Narbonne, David Charmatz, the accused admitted he had needed to go to the toilet and tried to get the driver to stop, but grabbed the wheel when he refused to do so.
As a result, the driver lost control and the coach veered off the A-9 motorway near Fitou, in the department of Aude, at around 01.30hrs on Monday.
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