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A motorcyclist attempts to stop the car with the rider's body embedded in the windcsreenVideo: Brazilian man drives almost four miles with dying cyclist in windscreen
A suspected drunk driver in Brazil has been arrested after driving six kilometres with a dying cyclist embedded in his windscreen.
Jose Adil Simioni, 58, was stopped by other motorists who blocked his car in busy traffic.
Witnesses at first thought the body was a doll and they were seeing some sort of prank, but it turned out to be Marco Aurelio Dlovski who was on his way home from work when Simioni hit him on a bend.
Simioni, allegedly too drunk to realise what had happened, carried on driving with Marco’s body slumped on his car.
CCTV footage shows a motorcyclist blocking Simioni, and then onlookers surrounding his car in Pinhiaius, near the town of Curitiba, in south-east Brazil.
Readers are warned that they may find this video distressing
Police led Simioni from his car to a patrol vehicle before handcuffing him and bundling him into the back.
Police bundle Simioni into a car
Marco was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics who covered the 31-year-old’s body with a white sheet before freeing his body from the windscreen.
Eye-witness Viriginia Cordeiro, who helped stop Simioni’s car, said: “People thought at first it was a doll on top of the car.
“When I realised it was a person I began shouting to other motorists to stop it.”
One police officer said:“The driver was quite clearly drunk and had trouble walking.
“We had to bundle him into the back of our patrol car quickly to save him being attacked by onlookers.”
Victim Marco’s sister Isa wrote on her Facebook page: “I’ll never forgive his killer.”
Simioni faces manslaughter and drink-drive charges.
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Fucking ginormous levels of irony and hipocrasy in this thread, if you watch the news and dont turn over when someone who is not yr friends/ family is killed, when you read this article and look at the pics or video - do you think magic camera fairies took those pictures, what about journalists - are they all in poor taste?
That you are here reading this article means these people taking pictures are no worse than you, if you can't understand that then you need to think a bit harder.
This just makes me lose faith in mankind.
A horrible story to switch onto this morning. Thoughts are with the victims family who have lost someone due to a selfish driver, who decided he could drive whilst being do drunk to even walk.
The fact he drove for 6km before being stopped is horrendous, hope they test for other drugs as well.
At least all this talk about the people with cameras shows that some of us can show the sympathy needed when reading these type of stories. Appauling behaviour. I don't think the police need much more evidence in the way of digital imagery. The fact that a man is embedded in a windscreen for 6km should be enough to throw suspicion of guilt in the drivers direction.
In the UK, this'd be Careless Driving, 3 points, a 6 month ban.
And lots of hand-wringing about what extra safety equipment cyclists aren't wearing yet.
Another human life lost for no reason.
R.I.P
How sad
Bless the victim, my thoughts are with his bereaved family. Sad indeed,
Manslaughter is an appropriate charge...in my humble opinion.
I didn't watch the vid and have no intention of doing so. I agree with the comments that one of the saddest elements of this story is the people stood around taking pictures of someone who has had their life end in tragic circumstances
Just human nature I think. The technology has changed, the compulsion to gawp is probably the same since time immemorial.
Quite. There used to be special trains to public hangings.
Still, seeing for real what death and serious injury looks like is sobering. It's noticeable on motorways that the driving is more restrained after passing such a scene.
+1
It was a horrible incident. I hope the driver gets a suitable penalty. The vultures taking photos ought to be ashamed of themselves.
absolutely incredible
The video is pretty tame in all honesty as its from far off until the sign blocks out the view then they zoom in.
Sentencing in Brazil is pretty light. If you consider the Cara Burke case for instance he only got 21 years so i cant imagine this driver will get much.
I think it's interesting here that people are saying it should be murder.
If this were in the UK he'd probably end up being charged with wreckless driving or something and there'd be outrage at that.
I think being charged with manslaughter is pretty bloody good and something I'd like to see in the UK a lot more.
I don't understand the anti-camera phone lot here. If I were in the same position, I'd take pictures before the police arrived in order to help with their investigation (digital photos have a lot of info that the police need, such as time and geo-stationary data). Most of the people taking photos will have the same 'citizen's duty' mentality, I should imagine...
There's an incredible amount of knowledge on here on the Brazilian justice system.
It's pretty much how murder or manslaughter (or culpable homicide if you're a Scot!) works the world over.
Its the 'mens rea' - quite literally "Guilty Mind" in latin - that makes the difference.
Thankful for the tastefully positioned road sign. The arm on the roof says enough.
The slack jawed, mouth breathing photograph-and-film auto-response of The Great Unwashed in these situations makes me despair for humanity.
I'm afraid this is a growing problem in the UK too. As a lorry driver, occasionally either stuck behind serious accidents or passing them, I can't help noticing that there's always a fair few people with their phones out. And it's even worse if there are pedestrians nearby; so ubiquitous, frankly, that they all look like they're doing nazi sallutes as they strain to film over the top of all the other sickos filming. It's human nature to be tempted to look, but filming the spectacle is pretty distasteful in my opinion.
The dead body is the least disgusting part of this video when you consider the people taking photographs for their own personal amusement.
But you watched the video anyway. Just look at the way BBC, SKY et al use death to titillate the viewer, they are shameless.
[edit] or maybe you didnt watch the video, I seem to be jumping to a conclusion there and I hate when people do that.
I stopped watching as soon as I saw the scum filming it.
No need to watch the video, found the description distressing enough already. I hope that twat gets jailed for life.
Camera phones... wow.
If that's manslaughter what exactly constitutes murder?
Pre-meditated intent.
Driving while drunk is reckless and negligent with a foreseeable risk of death or serious injury to others, but unless you actively intend to kill then it isn't murder.
And I'm not watching the video.
Yep it's tricky though. You need to intend to kill or intend to cause serious injury such that death might reasonably be foreseen as an outcome. So, if you punched someone in a bar fight and they died, then that would be manslaughter. Yes you had caused their death unlawfully but you could reasonably argue that your punch was not intended to cause such a serious injury that they might die. If you hit them in the skull with the leg of a bar stool several times that would be murder. It would be murder because it would be difficult to argue you didn't intend to inflict at least serious harm.
However if you were a heavyweight boxer and punched a 7st bloke and he died then you might be more murder than manslaughter since you might reasonably forsee that this could cause serious harm or death.
This case is tricky. It's obvious that the driver has no regard for the man's safety or well being. The injury resulting in death though, goes back to the initial collision. If that was accidental and the driver did't intend to collide with the cyclist, then murder doesn't apply. The fact that he didn't do anything to help him and showed no care whatsoever after the collision is pretty disgusting. It can be argued that his actions caused an already injured man to die or contributed to his death so manslaughter.
My guess is that his defence will be that he didn't stop in the area where he thought he had accidentally killed or injured a cyclist because he feared for his own safety if friends or family of the cyclist got hold of him.
That's not going to fly as a defence in Surbiton but in Brazil it might be accepted. Brazil can be pretty much like the wild west.
With you on all of that up to the crash, but he then carried on driving for 6km, even drunk surely aware of what he had done, that's then intent in my book.
Well he intends to do nothing about the bloke on his windscreen. That's for sure But does he intend to kill him? Or does he just not care that he dies? Does he think he's alive or dead? Why does he do this anyway? My guess and it's only a guess but based on some time spent in S America (not Brazil though) is that he didn't want to stop because it's not uncommon in S America that if you run someone over in their neighbourhood you can easily get a serious beating from the locals. Sometimes worse.
I'm not sticking up for the guy by the way. He probably did deserve a good hiding. I am just commenting on why it was manslaughter not murder. What happened after the initial injury is not completely irrelevant but a murder charge will depend on intent "before" the collision not after it.
Ie when he ran him over, was that an accident/negligence etc or was there intent to run him over and seriously injure or kill him. Scarpering afterwards with or without the body is seriously messed up and deserving of serious penalty. But if the guy died of injuries that weren't inflicted with the intent of killing him or seriously injuring him then it fails the test of Murder.
Not stopping to allow medical assistance could be manslaughter though. ie you don't intend him to die but you are careless as to whether your actions contribute to death. The US has a law of Reckless Endangerment and in some states Culpable Negligence. English law just has negligence but that's a civil tort. In the UK though we have a specific offence of causing death by dangerous driving and that would cover carrying on driving with a person on your windscreen that ended up with their death.
Are they the same onlookers who are all taking photos before they figure out if the victim is dead or alive?
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