Pedestrian killed by car: Driver and passenger handed over to KS Prosecutor's Office

SARAJevo, (Patria) - Sarajevo police have handed over two suspects who killed a pedestrian with a car, injured another, and fled the scene.

Working to shed light on the described criminal offense, police officers determined that the mentioned traffic accident was caused by driver A.S., born in 1987 in Sarajevo, where he resides, driving a passenger motor vehicle of the brand "VW Touareg", license plates K47-T-335. He was found on the mentioned day at 21:05 together with person A.B., born in 1982 in Sarajevo, where he resides, who was in the vehicle in the passenger seat at the time of the traffic accident.

Driver A.S. was deprived of liberty due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that he committed criminal offenses from Article 336, Paragraph 4 (Serious Offenses Against Public Traffic Safety) and Article 337 (Failure to Provide Assistance to a Person Injured in a Traffic Accident), in conjunction with Article 332, Paragraph 1 (Endangering Public Traffic) of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, while passenger A.B. was deprived of liberty due to the existence of grounds for suspicion that he committed criminal offenses from Article 337 (Failure to Provide Assistance to a Person Injured in a Traffic Accident) and Article 33 (Aiding the Perpetrator After the Commission of a Criminal Offense) of the Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Police officers of the Traffic Investigation Department, under the supervision of the acting prosecutor of the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton, continue to work on documenting this traffic accident.

As stated by Azra Bavčić from the KS Prosecutor's Office, the two individuals handed over to the Prosecutor's Office will be detained for 24 hours, and after the acting prosecutor questions them, a decision will be made on further measures.