Driver fined €5,000 as court finds pedestrian partly responsible for his own death in traffic accident

A driver, who three years ago caused the death of a Somali pedestrian in a traffic accident in Marsa has been fined €5,000 and disqualified from driving for six months.  Warren Chris Frendo, 35, was driving a Fiat Fiorino along Aldo Moro Road at around 2.30pm on March 24, 2014 when he hit Ismail Yasin Ibrahim. The windscreen was shattered with the force of impact.  Magistrate Aaron Bugeja observed that although contributory negligence on the part of the victim did play a role in this unfortunate incident, yet the cause of the fatality lay primarily with the accused.  Both technological evidence and eyewitnesses pointed towards the fact that the victim had chosen to cross the busy, four-lane thoroughfare by meandering through the passing traffic, the court noted, rather than use the pedestrian overhead bridge.  This was clearly "insensible behaviour" by the victim who had put his own life and that of the drivers at risk, the court remarked.  However, the court observed that this nonsensical act by the victim was not the sole cause of the accident. Indeed, a video-clip of the accident and other material evidence showed that the accused was driving in excess of the legal speed...

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