Overview
- A judge in Arnhem ordered new forensic research into whether the victim could be seen on the road and how the collision happened.
- Prosecutors say two men from Hattem assaulted the 33-year-old victim, leaving him on the roadway before a car ran over him.
- The driver, a 25-year-old man from Heerde, was accused by the Public Prosecution Service of careless, excessive speed and leaving the scene; he expressed remorse at the hearing.
- Defence teams successfully argued that earlier driving tests used different lighting, dummy placement and clothing, and they won permission to call injury-causation experts and re-hear witnesses.
- The substantive hearing is adjourned indefinitely while the NFI, the Public Prosecution Service and the defence consult and carry out agreed expert work.