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Repse accidentally kills pedestrian, temporarily halts pre-election campaign

Sep 27, 2006
By Gary Peach

FACE OF REGRET: Repse has garnered much sympathy, since the tragic accident was mostly the victim’s fault.
RIGA - Just hours after a Sept. 19 report found that Latvia once again boasts the deadliest roads in the European Union, former Prime Minister Einars Repse struck and killed a pedestrian in central Latvia. Repse was driving his Honda CRV late in the evening near the village of Koknese when he hit a 26-year-old man who had been “walking half-naked in the middle of the road,” according to police.Speaking to reporters the next day, Repse, who heads the right-wing New Era party, described the ...

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