Slovak driver Rezesova who caused fatal accident back in prison

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – Eva Rezesova, the Slovak driver who caused a fatal accident in Hungary last year, has been taken out of house arrest and placed back in pre-trial detention, following a binding ruling by a Budapest court on Tuesday.

The court quashed an earlier ruling of house arrest, a court spokesperson told MTI. The suspect has already been taken to prison, said Janos Koszta.

Rezesova is accused of having caused a fatal accident killing four people on the M3 motorway in August, 2012. In the early hours of August 21 last year, the defendant, driving a BMW X5 at 170kmh in the direction of Budapest, crashed into a Fiat Punto on M3 from behind. The Fiat was engulfed in fire, and all occupants, two women and two men, died.

The district court of Godollo, acting as a primary court, on November 22 sentenced Rezesova in a non-binding ruling to six years in prison for drunk driving causing the four deaths.

She was placed under house arrest after having been kept in pre-trial detention since August last year. Her defence lawyer requested the cessation of the detention. She was transferred to a property in the capital — according to press reports a luxury apartment house on the Danube embankment — and had to wear a tracking device. The prosecutor appealed for a stricter punishment and against releasing her to house arrest, citing the severity of the crime.