The Kaposvar County Court on Friday found Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Radimir Cacic guilty of causing a traffic accident with two fatalities in Hungary in 2010, and gave him a 22-month suspended sentence with a probation of three years.
Cacic's Chrysler hit a Skoda Fabia on the Nagykanisza-Budapest motorway in January 2010, and two passengers from the Skoda Fabia died of injuries sustained in the crash.
Since the very beginning Cacic claimed that he had been driving at 125 km/hr, that is below the upper limit, when the accident happened, and that he had entered a patch of fog which made visibility poor.
The prosecutors claimed that Cacic failed to adjust his driving to the conditions on the motorway, which caused the fatal accident.
The trial began in September 2011.
Cacic was ordered to cover the trial costs.
