It was in August 2021 that 18-year-old Lena Maria Aase and her friend got into the car to drive to the store on Osterøy in Vestland. The friend drives fast and several passers-by react to the speed. According to the police, the car had a speed of 104 km/h in a 60-zone. The friend loses control of the car, which drives into a cliff and crashes. Lena Maria Aase loses her life. Afterwards, the driver denied criminal liability. She has explained that she saw an animal that scared her, causing her to lose control. Now the 19-year-old friend who drove the car has been sentenced to ten months in prison for negligent homicide. It was BA who reported the case first. Friends gathered around the crime scene and laid flowers the day after the death in 2021. Photo: Therese Pisani / news Was the first to be acquitted It is the Gulating Court of Appeal that has concluded that the woman should be sentenced for the murder of her friend. It happens after she was first acquitted in Hordaland district court. They said that “under strong doubt” she could not be convicted of negligent homicide, because they could not prove that she had not seen an animal on the side of the road. The prosecutor asked for a year’s unconditional imprisonment for the woman. That is why they appealed the case, which was taken up in the Court of Appeal this year. Friends and fellow students drove in a cortege on Valestrandvegen on Osterøy after Lena Maria Aase lost her life in the accident. Photo: Synne Lykkebø Hafsaas / news The public prosecutor: – An important signal – This is a very sad case for those who are left behind, and it hits hard for those who have been charged and convicted, says public prosecutor Magne Sylta. He believes the verdict sends an important signal. – You have to adjust your speed according to the conditions. When you drive in this way, you can be held responsible for the consequences when things go wrong. The car the two friends were in drove into a cliff and crashed. Lena Maria Aase died in the accident. Photo: Anders Totland / Bygdanytt The woman’s defender, Kjetil Ottesen, says he has spoken to the 19-year-old. – I have discussed the matter with my client. Regardless of what legal decision this frames, she is terribly sorry for driving the car that was involved in the accident. He says they register that the Court of Appeal thinks something different about how the laws are used than what the district court and they themselves thought, and take that into account. – I feel so bad inside The two trials following the fatal accident have received a lot of attention in the media. When the woman first told her story in the Hordaland district court in October last year, she – I have such a bad conscience and such pain inside me, the 19-year-old said at the time. The case has also received a lot of attention in the local community, and the now convicted woman has said that she has lost contact with the friends she had before the accident. The day after the fatal accident, friends and classmates drove in a cortege.
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Veninna was only acquitted of negligent homicide after Lena Maria Aase died. Now he is condemned. – news Vestland
