The prosecutors insist on a harsher punishment for a young driver that ran his car into a group of seven persons in July 2008, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the press service of the General Prosecutor’s Office. On July 27, 2008, while under the influence of alcohol and without a driver’s license, the culprit was driving a VW LT-28 car on the central road of Cocieri village in Dubasari district. He crashed his car into seven young persons coming towards him along the right side of the road. As a result of the impact, three persons died, while the other four received different bodily injuries. The driver left the place of the accident. During the hearing, the young man confessed he took his father’s car without permission. On January 30, 2009, the Dubasari Court sentenced the 18-year-old driver to 7 years and a half in jail, banning him from driving a motor vehicle for a period of 5 years. The sentence was appealed by the offender’s lawyer, who demanded that the decision be quashed as the punishment was too harsh. The Chisinau Court of Appeals overturned the decision and passed a new judgment, sentencing the young man to 4 years’ imprisonment in a minors’ penitentiary and fining him 150 conventional unit, depriving him of the right to drive a unit of transport for a period of 5 years. The General Prosecutor’s Office considers the decision of the Court of Appeals is groundless and will thus appeal it to the Supreme Court of Justice.