Zele event of a major accident on the Lokerenbaan in Zele are this night four persons injured were transported to the hospital. A someone injured. Around a quarter to five in the morning, lost the driver’s control of his Mercedes SUV into a shallow turn and rammed two houses. The driver put a positive breath test and his licence was for 15 days repealed. Mayor Hans Button speaks about irresponsible driving. “I had just had surgery and was therefore down, fortunately not yet in the living room,” says resident Frans Van Wiele(70).
The accident happened this morning around 4.45 pm in the direction of Lokeren. The driver of the Mercedes SUV lost in the gentle curve to your Home At Half the control over his handlebars. A moment later scraped the car against a façade of a dwelling. The vehicle rolled then, and the throne is still the living room of a second home. Subsequently came the vehicle in the middle of the road. All the occupants could still get out, but all were transported to the hospital. “The driver had drunk,” says chief inspector Johan De Bruycker. “His driving licence was immediately for 15 days repealed. What the circumstances are is not yet clear, we should first the occupants can be questioned. May played a to high speed also have a role”, says the police.
French Wiele (70), retired photographer, lived for years in the home of his grandmother, the Lokerenbaan. He was very impressed and could his emotions difficult to restrain. “My house is just completely gone,” says French. “I’m waking up from the heavy blow. I had heard that my windows were blown, but I didn’t know it was that bad”, sounds. The man had only just had surgery and recovered from the surgery. Because of this, he slept downstairs because it took too long to climb the stairs. “The intention was to have the living room, where the car is driven, a bedroom to make it”, says the seventies. “Fortunately, this was not yet done, otherwise I may no longer have been. Now he drove on a few metres from my bed to the inside.”
The devastation to the homes was very heavy. The debris layers a hundred meters further on the roadway spread. It is the first time that French house is heavily affected in a collision. “On my twelfth, I was here in this street already hit. I remember this still very well. They drive here are often too fast,” says the man. “I’m very lucky that I still am.” Shortly after the accident, he called in a panic his son. That came immediately on the spot for his father to catch. He will probably also to his son shelter because the dwelling is uninhabitable due to the fire.
By the blow in the house there was also a small gas leak that the fire quickly under control. “The house is by the heavy blow certainly uninhabitable. We had the site for a while, frozen to death, but more than an hour after the accident, we could start to clean up”, says officer Tijs Dauwe.
The Lokerenbaan in Zele is already known that there are regular high speeds to be achieved. The public prosecutor sent an expert to the site to investigate the circumstances. “This is definitely irresponsible driving behaviour of the driver,” says mayor Hans Button. “The Lokerenbaan is all longer a problem, but we will in the coming years is sure to create an adaptation to the infrastructure, but let us be clear that here the full responsibility from the driver is,” said Button. “Further, we are still in a strengthening of the traffic police to implement in order to combat this kind of behaviour”, concludes the mayor.
