The driver doubled the blood alcohol level and rammed his vehicle into the agents who were trying to intercept him
The Civil Guard intercepted and arrested in Cartagena during the night of last Saturday the driver of a car for traveling more than 40 kilometers in the opposite direction. The 50-year-old man, who was arrested after a spectacular chase in which the speed of 200 km/h was touched on the La Manga del Mar Menor highway and the AP-7 motorway, doubled the rate of acoholemia.
After the first warnings, the COTA central of the Traffic Sector of Murcia mobilized the patrols to verify the incident and, shortly after, a patrol of Motorists of the Civil Guard located at kilometer 3 of the RM-12 the vehicle that was occupied by one person. At that time, a parallel follow-up was started to stop it: the offending car was going in the opposite direction and the police vehicle was traveling through the designated lanes.
The agents had to use the acoustic and light signals, but the driver ignored them. During the performance they reached speeds above 190 km/h. A second Civil Guard patrol went ahead of the entrances and exits of the road in order to alert the rest of the drivers and not to collide with it, which caused around twenty to have to maneuver abruptly to avoid colliding head-on.
In an attempt to avoid the Civil Guard, the driver joined the AP-7 Mediterranean motorway in the opposite direction from the RM-12, section from Cartagena to Vera, driving towards Vera through the lanes towards Alicante. He did it with a zigzag driving on the two lanes of the road. During the follow-up, he repeatedly tried to ram the officers’ vehicles.
After going around a roundabout several times, he joined the AP-7 motorway in the opposite direction again, this time in the direction of Alicante. Given the potential danger and the difficulty of intercepting the driver, the civil guards blocked tourism by cutting off the highway access roundabout with official vehicles, placing them at the ends of it so that they could not escape. Upon detecting that he could not flee, the driver made a risky maneuver and collided with the metal security barrier, an instant that the civil guards took advantage of to arrest him.
Then, the members of the Meritorious Traffic Association restored traffic, which was altered by this anomalous driving. The driver, a 50-year-old man who doubled the maximum blood alcohol level, was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime against road safety, for driving a motor vehicle with manifest recklessness, for endangering the lives of people and for driving in the opposite direction by unfolded route.
The tourism involved was removed by a roadside tow truck and was deposited at the disposal of the judicial authority. The detainee, along with the vehicle used, was placed at the disposal of the Court of Instruction of Cartagena for the trial by the procedure of rapid prosecution of certain crimes. In addition, he was administratively denounced before the Provincial Traffic Headquarters in Murcia for circulating exceeding the established rates.
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