Viola Beach driver 'looks like plunged off bridge intentionally', say Swedish police
 

:shocked:

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Swedish police believe the driver of the car in which Warrington indie band Viola Beach plunged to their deaths last month “probably acted intentionally”, after studying video footage of the moments before the crash.

The band’s four members and their manager were killed early in the morning on February 13 when their car plummeted 80ft into a canal near Stockholm, after smashing through a gap in a motorway bridge which had opened to let through a passing vessel.

New video footage of the run-up to the crash, viewed and reconstructed by Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper, shows the car coming to a near halt behind a lane of cars waiting for the bridge barriers to open, then swerving out onto a narrow hard shoulder, crashing through the barriers and accelerating towards the bridge.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...sh-police.html

omg, was it a paid driver or was it one of the band driving the car?

The title is missing the word "probably".

it was the manager :shocked:

Oh :( I hope that's not true

why would they be waiting in a line of cars fro the bridge to open, swerve out into the hard shoulder and charge the barrier ?

I didn't watch the video, i don't know if I want to really

He might have Thought he could make it over in time..judgement could have been fudged if he was overtired, drunk of under another influence.
People do the same crossing railway barriers, on foot and in cars.
Tragic end.

No, the car was not speeding and the barrier was already down

Confusion at the Road Signs?

Very True Livia



LT
common

I think maybe he thought he was in the wrong lane or something :shrug: I doubt he wanted to kill everyone

Maybe the band decided to sack the manager or something like that and he took it badly :shrug:

This is terrible :shocked:

Yes Cherie


"Probably"
needs to be in the title

If it does not fit LT
remove "indie" and /or "say"

"**** I'm in the wrong lane! I'll just smash through that barrier it'll be fine..."

It seems unlikely. My bet would be "under the influence", to be honest.

....hmmm, in the forensic post mortem it was said that preliminary results showed that the driver of the car had no trace of alcohol or drugs in his blood ...

He might have been egged on? Not realising the bridge was open until too late

Apparently there has been a mistake in translation from Swedish to English and intentionally is not the correct word.

..yeah that would make sense Jax because this was one of the reports I read earlier...

New reconstruction footage of the incident published by Swedish media today shows a traffic queue forming behind a raised bridge.

The driver appears to then overtake the stationary traffic before braking and then accelerating through the crash barrier.

Lars Berglund, lead investigator on the case, told Mirror Online: "There is no suggestion that it was intended to kill himself or the band.

Berglund added: "Maybe he had not discovered the barriers in front of those cars standing still.

"His speed may have been too high for stopping.

"I have not suggested that [the driver] was doing this in order to kill himself or the band.

"I said he was making a move from the right lane to the left lane and that was not accidental.

"We can see the brake lights. His intention was to stop the car. But maybe his speed was too high and it was too late."

oh dear what a mess, this will not play well for the families

Video evidence shows Viola Beach crash driver appeared to DELIBERATELY drive into Swedish bridge, say police… but 'he did not intend to kill himself or the band'

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"Looks like" is the same thing really. :laugh:

That bridge is very similar to one we have in our town and it's almost impossible to drive through by accident. There are barriers, flashing lights and an alarm.

..the Swedish police have explained the mis-translation of 'intentional'/'deliberate'...the manoeuvre made was thought to be deliberate to possibly avoid a collision or something but the car wasn't deliberately driven off the bridge...

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/viola-beac...131740389.html