Three years in prison and four years license suspension got offender Neil van der L. for dodemansrit on the A2. While Ricardo van Jaarsveld was killed. In the car which was in the fatality, were also his three children and ex-wife Diana and her boyfriend Niels. She and the children live with the traffic accident every day. "The children go with deformed legs through life."
The punishment was Van der L., was much lower than the required eight years in prison and ten-year license suspension. Diana (photo) and Niels responded tonight for the first time in public at RTL Late Night.
Best friend
Diana read during the court a statement in which she talked about the impact of the accident on her and her family. "I had to articulate what it is as a mother that, to wake up next to your best friend of 15 years, while he was dying. I had to express how my children with protruding bones layers and I could not get to them. How do you know that out ? "
Diana and Niels are disappointed with the amount of the penalty. "The disappointment lies in the fact that is not recognized that he indeed has accepted the risk. He chose that can go wrong."
Disappointment
The father Ricardo was in the studio with Humberto Tan. He is very sad about the verdict."Disappointment that it is so little. Look what he did to us. It's too little."
Especially the three children still suffered from the accident, says Diana. "One of the guys has a stoma, his intestines are damaged by the collision. That will they operate and try to restore. They are busy with physiotherapy. Both run with a splint on their leg."
deformed legs
"The youngest lacks fibula 15 centimeters, that is no longer growing. They have with deformed legs life. Especially the oldest ashamed there really for. It just is not right."
"For the youngest is very heavy. She is ten and can still remember everything about the crash. She's scared, not only dares to be. And the boys sleep with lights on. And they are very angry."
Hard drugs
Diana is particularly upset about the fact that the offender Neil van der L. has little understanding of what he has done. The perpetrator had used hard drugs and smoked cannabis. During the trial he could not promise not again with a joint in the car to move according to Diana. "But he does it for 20 to 25 years blunts in the car, and that he's not doing it again, he can not promise. You do not just bag."
Diana and Niels hope that something happens to the legislation for the causes of these accidents. "I hope we seriously do something with our laws and definitions that are inside," said Diana. "And that is heavily punished," concludes Niels.
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