By Helena Galari

The “green light” in order to take on financial compensation for mental distress to relatives of a couple and their two children who died on the new Chania Highway in 2011, “lit” the Council of State.

Although the Administrative Courts, both the Heraklion Administrative Court of First Instance and the Chania Administrative Court of Appeal, rejected the request of the relatives of the deceased, who requested that they be borne by 780,000 euros due to their mental distress.

Counselors of the State have considered that there is a responsibility of the State and the Region of Crete as “the in breach of the provisions and approved instructions omission of the installation and connection of the Security Plates in front of an obstacle (eg sound walls) on the northern road of Crete (Crete), Deadly injury to the vehicle occupants due to its diversion from its pavement and impact, then reversed, on the edge of the wall. “

Relatives of the victims argued that at the highway where the car’s impact occurred, “there is a construction failure, because the front corner of the concrete wall support wall was on the road and not only did it do not come between the metal.” In addition, they said that if there were no omissions of the competent state institutions and the installation and connection of the metal parapet to the wall as planned, then it would have hindered the diversion of the car and have intercepted it, reducing the speed and severity of the collision and restoring it.