Kerum under prohibition hid the accident on A1: He defended that he drove Fani, and made an alcohol test
Former Split mayor Zeljko Kerum He had a car accident on June 7, 2021 on the A1 motorway in the direction of Split, at the tunnel of Sv. Deadline. ‘Everything went well, thank God. No one was injured. I was with my wife and dic in Venice. We returned home. It was a lot of rain, it was very falling. He slipped my last part of the car and scored laterally into the fence, destroyed both tires, ‘he told us at the time. Now his payment slips for an offense and a verdict from the Gospic Municipal Court have arrived.
According to the verdict, Kerum, at 2:45 pm, returned from Venice to his family at 2:45 pm, driving a Mercedes violating the law. He was in force, based on the misdemeanor orders of the Split and Šibenik police, two protective measures for the ban on a B category motor vehicle for six months. The first lasted from February 18 to August 18, and the second from April 12 to October 12, 2021.
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The Judge of Gospic ventured into him 1,500 euros in financial penalties. If it pays it within 30 days, it is allowed to discount the payment of two thirds of the amount and must settle 42.36 euros in court costs.
At the main hearing held on March 27, 2025. The court found that Kerum had paid 750 kuna of the penalty after the investigation on the spot on the spot. He also did an alcohol test. « He was found to be sober, » the verdict reports.
A police officer who was on the assignment that day gave his testimony in court.
– I joined my colleague for the purpose of implementing an eyewitness at 219 km of A1 motorway, where and otherwise, within my police service, I was patrolling for speed control. Upon arriving at the scene of a car accident, I found that a car accident was caused by a Mercedes driven by Kerum. It was raining, and his wife was sitting in one of the vehicles, I don’t remember if the road or their Mercedes was, while police officers with Kerum were on an official police vehicle – said a police officer.
In the final speech, the defense attorney emphasized that there was no evidence that Kerum was driving a highway vehicle, but that his wife Fani was driving a vehicle, and that Zeljko only paid a sentence for a caused car accident because he would take responsibility for his wife’s rank, with the proposal to release the defendant from the charge. The court did not believe this, given that when paying a fine, Kerum had signed a certificate to the police officer, indicating that Kerum had been as a driver.
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On the day of the main hearing, the court made an insight into the statement from the ‘Corner of the drivers’ of the Ministry of the Interior of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, finding that Kerum’s driver’s license was on March 27, 2025. Invalid.
If they ‘catch’ him again at the wheel, except for a fine, which can go up to 2650 euros, he is threatened with 60 days in prison, and at the same time it is prescribed that six negative misdemeanor points are entered in this case.
