National Coalition Party MP Kimmo Sasi is to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and endangerment of traffic safety in connection with a highway collision that took place in March during this year's Parliamentary election campaign.
Sasi was involved in a head-on collision in Ylöjärvi near Tampere on March 5th this year. A 70-year-old man died in the accident, and a woman who was riding with him was injured. Sasi himself was also slightly injured.
Information on the events of the crash has come mainly from witnesses at the scene, and the autopsy report on the deceased man, said prosecutor Antti Virtanen to Helsingin Sanomat on Monday.
The prosecutor feels that Sasi caused the accident, because his car had moved into the oncoming lane. Virtanen says that no single cause of the accident has been found.
Virtanen said that he would leave it to the court to decide if the appropriate punishment would be a short suspended prison sentence, or a fine.
Police have said that weather conditions were not a factor in the accident, and that nobody was driving too fast, nor were intoxicants involved.
The case is expected to come to court in the autumn. An application for a summons will be submitted to Tampere District Court in the coming days, after which a court date will be assigned.
