Waasmunster, belgium Last night, is a long politieachtervolging on the E17 ended in a horrorcrash. The fleeing vehicle drove in on some of the cars still stood up for an ambush at the height of Waasmunster. Three cars, a van and a truck were hit. As if by miracle there was only one wounded. Afterwards was in the car of the weggevluchte driver a bag with two kilograms of drugs found.
The Federal police wanted in Brasschaat a vehicle maintain and monitor, but the driver of the heavy Audis with French license plate gave down and beat on the flight. Via the E19, it was about the Ring way around Antwerp through the kennedy tunnel in the direction of E17. The kennedy tunnel would already be nearly to a collision come with a police vehicle that the suspect was on the heels sat. While the chase, with dizzying speed to more than 260 km/h, went over the highway E17 direction Gent, was by the police about 20 kilometres away, an ambush.
Ambush
Just for Waasmunster was the highway completely shut down to try the fleeing car to a halt, but that went wrong. The Audi drove at high speed on various vehicles that still stood for the ambush. The impact was huge; three cars, a van and a truck were hit. One of the vehicles, a Volkswagen was fully up scrap is reduced. As if by miracle could the fleeing driver, despite the injuries that he suffered, on its own power out of his car scrambling, which by the slap on his they came to. The truck driver who is also involved, the man could, however, cope with a firm tackle in which the police could including.
Only one injured
It is a small miracle that the horrorcrash no deaths. The driver of the Volkswagen that the heaviest impact had to endure was injured, but is not in danger. A couple from Bruges, which is one of the hit cars was, was unharmed but wrong in a state of shock. In the trunk of the car was a bag found with two kilos of marijuana. A verkeersdeskundige of the public prosecutor’s office was appointed to spot the necessary findings to do so. The Audi of the suspect turned out originally a red color, but was a new bright yellow paint. By the accident, the highway was a long time completely closed. The traffic could continue to pass through the zijrijweg.
