Police have closed an investigation into the crash last August that killed motor journalist Urmas Oja, editor in chief of the TopGear Eesti magazine, having established that no one else was linked to the accident or responsible for it.
Police close inquiry into crash that killed editor of Top Gear Estonia magazine
24th February 2013, 10:04
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The accident happened on the night of August 20, 2012 when a brand new Opel Zafira provided to the 30-year-old editor for testing veered off the road in the Laagna Road transit channel in Tallinn's Lasnamae district and hit the concrete pillar of a pedestrian bridge on the left. The driver was in the vehicle alone and he died of injuries on the spot.
Arno Poder, spokesman for the regional prosecutor's office for North Estonia, said that according to evidence the driver lost control of the vehicle and died as a result of an accident. "At the time of the accident it was dark outside and the surface of the road was wet, but the road was straight and lit," Poder told BNS on Wednesday.
The vehicle's speedometer had stuck at the reading of 130 kmh and the reading of the tachometer was consistent with it. The accident happened in a 70 kmh zone.