Copenhagen: city denies there are grounds for manslaughter charge in death of U.S. tourist

cphpost.dk reported that the City Council says that while it admits violating traffic rules in the death of an American tourist in August, it does not believe there are sufficient grounds for a manslaughter charge.

The City Council and the driver of a runaway vehicle that killed 63-year-old Carl Robinson in August were charged in December with negligent manslaughter and various traffic violations. Robinson, a former school psychologist in Baltimore, Maryland, was struck and killed by the malfunctioning rubbish lorry on Copenhagen’s Strøget pedestrian after a city sanitation worker parked and left the vehicle unattended while emptying rubbish bins. Read Article