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The public prosecutor accuses the 35-year-old of grossly negligent homicide. Burger is blamed for an alcohol content of 0.78 per mil in connection with fatigue.
The accident happened on November 25 last year in the early hours of the morning. According to the police, the former top athlete came to the right with her car on the B19 shortly before 5:30 a.m. and then swerved to the left. She crashed into the car of a 37-year-old. Any help came too late for the Lower Austrian. The driver was taken to Tulln University Hospital with injuries.
Up to three years imprisonment
The trial begins on Monday at 10 a.m. and is scheduled for an hour and a half, the spokeswoman for the regional court said on Wednesday on request. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison.
After the accident, the ÖFB sent a statement on behalf of Burger. “I can’t find any words to express my regret about what happened today. All my thoughts are with the bereaved. What they have to suffer now is difficult to imagine and hard to bear,” the former ÖFB national team player was quoted as saying.
Source: Nachrichten
